Showing posts with label college admissions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college admissions. Show all posts

Friday, December 5, 2025

DEI ban could hurt college enrollment rates for men, particularly White men - The Washington Post

The university accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female prospects, though, like some other schools, it got nearly twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easier for male students to get in — 7 percent of male applicants were admitted, compared with 4.4 percent of female applicants, university data shows. 

The Trump administration's policies may soon put an end to that advantage enjoyed by men at some colleges, admissions and higher-education experts say...


 

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Opinion | The New Beneficiaries of Affirmative Action Are White Men - POLITICO

It is hard to avoid the upside-down nature of a decision that ends up privileging the very group that has historically been most advantaged. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson condemned the "perverse" nature of the SFFA decision, which reads a part of the Constitution aimed at correcting racial injustice as barring a policy that does just that. A recent challenge to Harvard's legacy admissions policy is also premised on the backwards aspect of a decision that bans express accounting of race while permitting consideration of far less worthy traits…







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