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Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
IvyWise is a for-profit New York-based firm of educational consultants that assists students pursuing admission to college. IvyWise counselors also work with students applying to nursery school, elementary school, high school/boarding school, and graduate or professional schools. Their services range from primary and secondary school admissions ...
The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), founded in 1937, is an organization of more than 25,000 professionals from around the world dedicated to serving students transitioning from secondary to postsecondary education. It includes professional school counselors at the secondary and postsecondary level, college access ...
October 1, 2019 at 4:38 PM. A U.S. district judge sided with Harvard at the conclusion of a high-profile court case in which a group of Asian-Americans asserted that the school's admissions ...
The probe comes in response to a complaint filed on July 3 by three civil rights groups, who argued that Harvard College's preference for "legacy" undergraduate applicants overwhelmingly benefits ...
With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue — whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions.
Harvard College was founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Two years later, the college became home to North America's first known printing press, carried by the ship John of London. [6] [7] In 1639 the college (heretofore unnamed) [8] was named Harvard College in honor of deceased Charlestown ...
Opening a new front in legal battles over college admissions, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's policies on legacy admissions.