To inform this important policy debate, we develop a simple model comprised of a rational college administrator that maximizes a linear combination of student body ability and the college endowment through the choice of race, legacy and merit admission shares. We find that relaxing the racial-...
“Students’ exposure to high-quality schools and the kind of preparation necessary to gain admission is unequally distributed across ZIP codes,” she says. “So affirmative action is one way to contextualize the opportunities that a student had during their K-12 experience and the disadvant...
The college admission processes in China and the United States represent opposite sides of the spectrum. Countries like Canada and Britain are somewhere in between. With an aim toward maximum equality, Chinas evaluation is based solely on final academic tests. In contrast, the U.S. college admiss...
Washington —The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that race-conscious admission policies of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Constitution, bringing an end toaffirmative actionin higher education in a decision that will reverberate across campuses nationwide....
In fact, an applicant for admission still can write about, and colleges can consider, “how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration or otherwise,” Roberts wrote. But the institutions “may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime...
Moreover, while the college admission programs specifically used race as a factor in decision-making, corporate DEI efforts are typically less directive and more holistic, focusing on bias training, diverse candidate pools, and mentoring. Additionally, while there has been fanfare about reverse discri...
Explore and research how racial identity impacts college admission policies. Racial identity: This is the way in which individual views himself/herself and how others view them as being members of a particular racial group. Several factors enable an individual to understand their racial ident...
California originally unveiled its “Master Plan” in 1960 which guaranteed admission to the UC schools for the top 12.5% of California high school graduates and admission to the state schools for those graduating in the top third.[22]While the UC system initially experienced a dip in URG ...
关键词: Admission Criteria Affirmative Action College Admission College Applicants Educational Objectives Equal Education Ethnic Groups Higher Education Racial Discrimination Selective Admission DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-162X(199612)16:5<520::AID-PAD914>3.0.CO;2-R 被引量: 11 年份: 1996 收藏...
"holistic admissions" is actually a cover to practice racial discrimination Asian-Americans are discriminated against in admissions - meaning, lower admissions rates controlling for qualifications.In their words, "an Asian-American with a 25% chance of admission would have a 35% chance if he were ...