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Harvard further claimed that it had studied more than a dozen race-neutral admissions alternatives and allegedly found none "promote Harvard’s diversity-related educational objectives as well as Harvard’s … admissions program while also maintaining the standards of excellence that Harvard seeks in its student body." [36]
In September 2023, SFFA filed a lawsuit challenging the use of race and ethnicity as admissions factors at the United States Military Academy, as the Supreme Court exempted military academies from its ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. In February 2024 the organization was blocked from appealing a decision to the Supreme Court ...
Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] 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 ...
Critics also argue that holistic admissions is intended to justify selection that seems otherwise random, [237] or otherwise biased towards wealth and race. [ 238 ] [ 239 ] The weighing of certain personality traits in analyzing a student has also become the subject of debate.
Harvard admitted its first Black student, Beverly Garnett Williams, in 1847. News of his admission incited protests by Harvard students and faculty. [131] Williams died before the academic year began, however, and never matriculated. [132] Richard Theodore Greener was the first African American to receive a Harvard degree in 1870. [133]
race could be considered among other factors in the college admissions process, but racial quotas under affirmative action are unconstitutional Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1: 2007 551 U.S. 701 rejected using race as the sole determining factor for assigning students to schools Obergefell v. Hodges: 2015
Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action in student admissions.The Court held that a student admissions process that favors "underrepresented minority groups" did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause so long as it took into account other factors evaluated on an individual ...
Gay's research addresses American political behavior, including voter turnout and politics of race and identity. [3] From July 1, 2023, until January 2, 2024, Gay was the 30th president of Harvard University.