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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 Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against Asian Americans. In 2019 a district court judge upheld Harvard's limited use of race as ...
Legacy preferences in both public and private universities may be illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (now codified in Section 1981 of the U.S. Code). Distribution of GPA in college major by legacy status. At Harvard, legacies have higher median SAT test scores and grades than the rest of admitted students.
Harvard announced Thursday it will reinstate the requirement for applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, the latest in a string of schools to return to making the scores mandatory. The requirement ...
Harvard had initially said it was going to maintain its test-optional policy through the entering class of the fall of 2026. Under the change announced Thursday, students applying to Harvard for fall 2025 admission will be required to submit standardized test scores from the SAT or ACT exams to satisfy the testing component of the application.
A 2009 study found that SAT or ACT scores along with high-school GPAs are strong predictors of cumulative university GPAs. In particular, those with standardized test scores in the 50th percentile or better had a two-thirds chance of having a cumulative university GPA in the top half.
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard College is Harvard University's traditional undergraduate program, offering AB ( Bachelor of Arts) and SB ( Bachelor of Science) degrees. It is ...
In 2007 Robert Coe, of Durham University, published a report analysing the historical A-Level awards to candidates who'd obtained the average norm-referenced ALIS TDA/ITDA test scores, he noted: From 1988 until 2006 the achievement levels have risen by about an average of 2 grades in each subject.
As the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University reported, 11 million people devoted at least half of their income to rent in 2014 — a record high.