Transgender Harvard Applicant Alleges Discrimination

Harvard University just can’t seem to catch a break these days. The university finds itself on defense again as an an applicant to Harvard Business School and its Graduate School of Education has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts alleging the university discriminated against her in its admissions … 

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Justice Department Publicly Opposes Harvard Admissions

It wasn’t exactly a secret where our United States Department of Justice, under the stewardship of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, stood on the issue of whether or not Harvard University unfairly discriminates against Asian American applicants. As our readers know all too well, Harvard University is defending itself in a … 

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Harvard Class of 2022

Admissions statistics are out for the Harvard Class of 2022 and what a year it was for the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based university. In all, 42,749 students submitted applications to Harvard in the hope of becoming members of the Harvard Class of 2022. Of these students, 1,962 earned admission. By our math, … 

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Affirmative Action at Harvard

As universities across America keep a watchful eye on the Trump administration’s interest in challenging the legality of Affirmative Action, there is no university facing more intense pressure than Harvard University. As we’ve previously reported on the pages of our college admissions blog, the United States Department of Justice, under … 

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Harvard Admissions Lawsuit

Two federal lawsuits were filed this week — one against Harvard University and the other against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — and both center on race-based Affirmative Action policies at the universities. In particular, the lawsuits focus on how white and Asian American applicants to these … 

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Harvard Admissions Decisions

Back in the day, students were able to conjecture whether or not they were admitted to a university by observing the thinness or thickness of the decision envelope. Their conjecture was often accurate as universities that admitted students included additional information about the university in the hope of swaying them … 

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Admission to Harvard

College seniors frequently say that the freshmen look younger and younger every year. Usually, it’s just their minds playing tricks on them. But in the case of incoming Harvard freshman Saheela O. Ibraheem, they’re not wrong. Saheela will be matriculating to Harvard College next year at the age of fifteen. … 

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Brown University Recruits

An article in “The Brown Daily Herald” by Ethan McCoy and Lindor Qunaj points out that Brown University struggles against its Ivy League counterparts in luring middle-class recruited athletes to come to Brown University once admitted. Why does it matter that they’re middle class? Well, according to the article, “Families … 

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Harvard University Admissions

According to an article written by Jeevan Vasagar entitled “Harvard admits record numbers of African-American and Latino Students” in the UK newspaper “The Guardian,” Harvard University is in record territory this year with its admissions statistics as they relate to minority applicants – specifically African American and Latino students. “While Oxford … 

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