Cornell’s undergraduate application has asked students each year to reflect upon their experiences or ambitions, but students applying to Cornell during the 2023-2024 application cycle will answer a ...

Changes in admissions policies began during the COVID-19 pandemic when many students were unable to take standardized tests, which led to the introduction of test-optional policies at Yale. Later, the ...

Fewer students in this fall’s class of college freshmen chose to disclose their race or ethnicity in their applications to some top schools, data shows. The pattern, which is nuanced and only affects ...

Anshul Patel started his first year of college at the University of Connecticut in Storrs last month. He’s making new friends, signing up for clubs and rushing from his f biology lab class to his ...

When the Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities could no longer consider the race of an applicant when making admissions decisions in June of last year, it left thousands of institutions ...

After affirmative action was overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States in June 2023, Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Barnard each published statements ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Elite colleges are enrolling record numbers of low-income students after the Supreme Court banned affirmative ...

My article Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action has finally been published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, ...

This fall, there’s been much hand-wringing, data parsing and speculation across higher ed about the fallout of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer that ended affirmative action. As predicted, ...