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Harvard Law School is reporting its lowest Black student enrollment since the 1960s just one year after the Supreme Court’s decision to end race-conscious college admissions. Only 19 first-year ...
For comparison, Harvard's acceptance rate released for regular decision last spring, the lowest in the Ivy League, was 5.2% for the class of 2021. Cornell, which has the highest in the Ivy League ...
The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate ...
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]
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
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 ...
About one in five students from Harvard’s graduating class of 2024 reported having a nearly perfect GPA, rounding to 4.0, according to the Harvard Crimson. Nearly 80% had an average GPA of 3.7 ...
College admissions in the United States is the process of applying for undergraduate study at colleges or universities. [1] For students entering college directly after high school, the process typically begins in eleventh grade, with most applications submitted during twelfth grade. [2]