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...first round of early application numbers at the College is in. They’re dramatic—applications for the Class of 2008 fell a staggering 47 percent from last year’s record high—but no one in undergraduate admissions?? Garden Street offices seems concerned about the drastic decrease in students seeking early spots at Harvard. Why such calmness in the face of such a fall? Isn’t anyone worried that interest in Harvard has waned? The answer to the apparent paradox is that Byerly Hall’s administrators...
...Office of Undergraduate Admissions?? Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, which dispatches Harvard students to recruit at diverse urban schools, is a powerful tool Okunseinde said...
...Grutter ruling relied on the contention that diversity in higher education is a “compelling state interest that can justify the use of race in university admissions??—and that this interest trumps concerns about discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This view was first articulated by former Justice Lewis F. Powell’s majority opinion in Bakke...
Critics, while welcoming the time limit and its suggestion of a gradual phase-out of all affirmative action programs in admissions??not just those ruled out in Gratz—were similarly unsure about where the ruling and its sunset clause would lead...
...ARBOR, Mich.—The heart of the University of Michigan campus erupted in celebration on Monday after the Supreme Court made a limited ruling upholding the school’s use of race in admissions??and, by extension, affirmative action programs nationwide...