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  2. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard - Wikipedia

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    Bakke (1978), which validated some affirmative action in college admissions provided that race had a limited role in decisions. [ c ] In 2013, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed suit against Harvard University in U.S. District Court in Boston, alleging that the university's undergraduate admission practices violated Title VI of the Civil ...

  3. College admissions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Gratz v. Bollinger - Wikipedia

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    Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244 (2003), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the University of Michigan undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy. In a 6–3 decision announced on June 23, 2003, Chief Justice Rehnquist, writing for the Court, ruled the University's point system's "predetermined point allocations" that awarded 20 points towards admission to ...

  5. Varsity Blues scandal - Wikipedia

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    Mark Riddell, a Harvard alumnus and college admission exam preparation director at IMG Academy, was one of the stand-in test takers who took over two dozen exams; he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud and one count of money laundering, and agreed to cooperate with investigators.

  6. List of admission tests to colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    ETEA (UET) - for admission in public sector engineering college or university in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is conducted by University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar . HAT-UG – HEC Aptitude Test-Undergraduate, for admission in selected government and private colleges and universities.

  7. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Petition Calls For A Major College Nickname To Change

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    The post Petition Calls For A Major College Nickname To Change appeared first on The Spun. A petition is calling for a Pac-12 school to change its nickname. Arizona State’s mascot, Sparky, was ...

  9. Affirmative action at the University of Michigan - Wikipedia

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    The dissent argued that using race as a factor in admission decisions was in fact a way to promote a quota system and that it should be illegal now, not in 25 years to use racial affirmative action plans. Before this case, the compelling interest required to justify affirmative action has been correcting the effects of historic discrimination.