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In Harvard, SFFA asked if Harvard's admission practices were in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act given possible race-neutral selection processes, while in North Carolina, they asked if a university can reject a race-neutral admission process if they believe they need to protect the diversity of the student body and quality of ...
Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [20] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...
Between 2010 and 2014, Harvard's admissions of minorities, including blacks, Latinos, and Asian-Americans, ranged between 43% and 45.6%. [2] As of 2014, African Americans make up 9.4% of the approximately 7,500 undergraduates at Harvard.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student ...
Both cases were filed by Students for Fair Admissions, a group founded by affirmative action opponent Edward Blum, which alleged that Harvard's race-conscious admissions policies discriminated ...
English: Chart showing college attendance in the United States, analyzed by race and schools' overall admission rates Data source: Arum, Richard; Stevens, Mitchell L. (July 3, 2023). "For Most College Students, Affirmative Action Was Never Enough". The New York Times. Source states: "Note: Data as of 2021. Source: U.S. Department of Education"
[1] [2] In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that affirmative action programs in college admissions (excepting military academies) are unconstitutional. SFFA has been described by its opponents as an anti-affirmative action group that objects to the use of race as one of the factors in college ...
A U.S. district judge sided with Harvard at the conclusion of a high-profile court case in which a group of Asian-Americans asserted that the school's admissions department discriminated against them.