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Should Elite Colleges Randomly Select Students? Title: Should Elite Colleges Randomly Select Students?
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Filed in archive College Admissions by Mark on February 22, 2005

This week's Chronicle of Higher Education offers a special section examining college admissions. One essay is rather peculiar. In it, the author, a Swarthmore psychology professor, suggests that...

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Controversy at Harvard Continues Title: Controversy at Harvard Continues
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Filed in archive University Administration by Mark on February 18, 2005

I bet Larry Summers wishes he never attended the NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce last month. At the very least, he no doubt regrets his comments about...

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Does Affirmative Action Harm Black Law-School Students? Title: Does Affirmative Action Harm Black Law-School Students?
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Filed in archive Professional Education by Mark on February 15, 2005

According to one UCLA law professor, it does. Richard Sander, writing in the Stanford Law Review, recently suggested that affirmative action causes black students to enroll in law schools beyond their...

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Yale Leads Ivies in Black Enrollments Title: Yale Leads Ivies in Black Enrollments
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Filed in archive College Admissions by Mark on February 11, 2005

(Source: Yale University)According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, last fall's freshman class at Yale topped the Ivies in terms of black enrollments. Just under 10 percent were...

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Admissions Advice from a Maverick Title: Admissions Advice from a Maverick
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Filed in archive College Admissions by Mark on February 01, 2005

Check out this article in the Boston Globe on Lloyd Thacker and his organization, Education Conservancy, a "non-profit organization committed to improving college admission processes for...

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