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  1. Supreme Court To Hear Controversial Race-Based College Admission Case

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  2. Black Catholics react to Supreme Court affirmative action decision

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  3. Supreme Court guts affirmative action in college admissions

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  4. Supreme Court just threw out the college admissions process as we know

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  5. EXPLAINER: Supreme Court takes up race in college admissions

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  6. The Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case

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  1. The Supreme Court Killed the College-Admissions Essay

    Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. June 30, 2023. Nestled within yesterday's Supreme Court decision declaring that race-conscious admissions programs, like those at Harvard and the ...

  2. Application Essay More Important After Affirmative Action Ruling

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action noted students can use essays to address race. College officials remain unclear about the extent to which race can be considered in holistic admissions decisions. Race should be discussed within the context of character formation. An authentic presentation of self might dissuade students from ...

  3. After Supreme Court Ruling, Can the Essay Get You In?

    That could be one way to demonstrate the impact of the essay on an admissions decision without racial bias. But the bottom line for me is: proceed with caution." What About Students? And there is also the question about what students would write. Matteo Wong wrote in The Atlantic that the Supreme Court has "killed the college admission ...

  4. The Supreme Court Killed the College-Admissions Essay

    Nestled within yesterday's Supreme Court decision declaring that race-conscious admissions programs, like those at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, are unconstitutional is a crucial ...

  5. The application essay will become a place to talk about race

    Travis Dove for The New York Times. By Stephanie Saul. June 29, 2023. The college essay may become more important after the Supreme Court's decision, and a place where students can highlight ...

  6. Colleges Change the Essays on Applications After Affirmative Action Ban

    Harvard University has replaced last year's single optional essay with five required short essays, designed to allow the admissions committee to see each applicant as a "whole person ...

  7. After Affirmative Action Ban, They Rewrote College Essays With a Key

    The Supreme Court's ruling intended to remove the consideration of race during the admissions process. So students used their essays to highlight their racial background.

  8. JFK Lazy Harvard Essay Resurfaces After SCOTUS Admissions Ruling

    The Supreme Court ruled to overturn race-based affirmative action on Thursday. After the ruling, many focused on John F. Kennedy's underwhelming 1935 Harvard admission essay. People painted ...

  9. A Big Problem With College Admissions Could Be About to Get Worse

    Brenda, a white admissions officer for a Texas-based university, told me that reading trauma essays sometimes moves her to tears. "There are essays that made me cry. There have been days when I ...

  10. How college applicants are navigating race in essays after SCOTUS

    Mark Sappenfield, Editor. [email protected]. The Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action left students of color uncertain how their race should figure into college essays. This year's ...

  11. The Death of Affirmative Action : Consider This from NPR

    The Supreme Court effectively killed race-conscious admissions in higher education on Thursday. In two cases, the court decided that the admissions policies of Harvard and the University of North ...

  12. The Supreme Court Just Put an 'Extra Burden' on Application Essays

    July 12, 2023. The U.S. Supreme Court's ban on the consideration of an applicant's race raises difficult questions for many of the nation's most-selective colleges. One concerns the role and ...

  13. How Will the Affirmative Action Ruling Affect the College Essay?

    In an essay last week in The Atlantic called "The Supreme Court Killed the College-Admissions Essay," Matteo Wong compared the potential effect to writing done by AIs: "Tired platitudes about race angled to persuade admissions officers will crowd out more individual, creative approaches, the result no better than a machine's banal ...

  14. Five Ways College Admissions Could Change

    The Supreme Court's ruling on Thursday that ended race-conscious admissions is widely expected to lead to a dramatic drop in the number of Black and Hispanic students at selective colleges. But ...

  15. Opinion

    A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court issued one of its end-of-term bangers with Students for Fair Admissions v.President and Fellows of Harvard College.In that ruling, a 6-3 court brought an end to ...

  16. SMU Law Review

    The Supreme Court killed it. 2. Chief Justice John Roberts's consolidated majority opinion in . ... An Update on Yale College's Response to the Supreme Court Ruling on Race in Admissions, Yale Coll. (Sept. 7, 2023), https://yale- ... How John Roberts Remade the College Application Essay, Semafor (June 29, 2023, 8:41 PM), https://www.semafor ...

  17. Legacy college admissions under scrutiny again after Supreme Court

    In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that strikes down affirmative action in admissions, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences — the practice of ...

  18. The Supreme Court Killed the College-Admissions Essay

    The end of affirmative action will pressure high schoolers to write about their race through formulaic and belittling narrative tropes.Nestled within yesterday's Supreme Court decision declaring that race-conscious admissions programs, like those at Harvard and the University of North Carolina,...

  19. Speakers explain impact of U.S. Supreme Court decision on affirmative

    Renée M. Landers, JD . During a May 17 Centering the Margins event organized by the Diversity and Inclusion Office, Renée M. Landers, JD, professor of law and faculty director, Suffolk University Law School, explained the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and UNC cases, which ruled that the use of race in admissions was not consistent with Title ...

  20. With Supreme Court Decision, College Admissions Could Become More

    In the Supreme Court decision striking down racial and ethnic preferences in college admissions, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. had harsh words for Harvard and the University of North Carolina ...

  21. The Supreme Court Rejected Affirmative Action at Colleges

    June 29, 2023. The Supreme Court ruled today that the race-based admissions programs that have long been used by elite universities to increase diversity among their student bodies were unlawful ...

  22. Colleges rethink legacy admissions in the wake of decision ...

    The Supreme Court's decision to limit the use of race in admissions was a game-changer for colleges. While the ruling's biggest impact is on the most selective schools, a survey found nearly a ...

  23. Prosecutors will seek death penalty against man accused of ...

    Prosecutors say they are seeking the death penalty against a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death late last year.

  24. Court documents reveal details about the killings of 4 University of

    A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: We're learning new details about the brutal killings of four University of Idaho students in November. Court documents indicate one of the surviving roommates saw someone ...