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XIV; Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision [1][2][3][4] 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. [5]
The average high school GPA is typically 4.00/4.00. Typically, the average SAT score for incoming students is 2150/2400, although SAT scores are not used in the admissions decision process at the Honors College. First year students admitted to the Honors College earn a $5,000-per-year academic scholarship which is renewable for four years.
In 2019, a scandal arose over a criminal conspiracy to influence undergraduate admissions decisions at several top American universities. The investigation into the conspiracy was code named Operation Varsity Blues. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The investigation and related charges were made public on March 12, 2019, by United States federal prosecutors.
A federal appeals court on Monday declined to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions, as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether to ...
Graduates from a high school in Connecticut in 2008. College admissions in the United States refers to the process of applying for entrance to institutions of higher education for undergraduate study at one of the nation's colleges or universities. [1][2] For those who intend to attend college immediately after high school, the college search ...
Felicity Huffman was released from prison on Friday after serving 11 of her 14 days for her role in the nationwide college admissions cheating case.Huffman’s early release is a normal policy for ...
Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [19] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...
Website. upenn.edu. The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn[ note 3 ] or UPenn, [ note 4 ] is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's ...