There is no topic that we cover on the pages of this college admissions blog that elicits a stronger reaction than Affirmative Action — particularly from our more conservative readers. Or maybe it’s just one particular reader in Brentwood, Tennessee writing under various pseudonyms. Hey, some fish. Others knit. And …
Do our readers remember Michael Wang, the student — now back in the news — who became the self-appointed proverbial poster child of Asian American discrimination in elite college admissions by filing a complaint with the United States Department of Education against Yale University, Princeton University, and Stanford University? As …
Affirmative Action, which will soon be up for debate at our nation’s highest court, has long been the most divisive subject we cover on the pages of this college admissions blog, regularly engendering a slew of comments both for and against the consideration of race in admissions decision-making. Today, we …
The right of universities to consider race as a factor in the college admissions process is now officially in legal peril. The United States Supreme Court agreed today to debate the legal right of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina — two cases brought by Edward Blum, the …
