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A Confusing New World for College Applicants

A Confusing New World for College Applicants

The Daily vor 2 Jahren

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In a landmark ruling last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court
overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and banned the use of
affirmative action in college admissions.

The decision eliminated the most powerful tool for ensuring
diversity on America’s college campuses and forced college
admission officers and high school seniors to figure out what the
college admissions process should look like when race cannot be
taken into account.

Jessica Cheung, a producer on “The Daily,” explains how, over the
past year, both students and college officials have tried to
navigate the new rules.

Guest: Jessica Cheung, a producer on “The Daily” for The New York
Times.

Background reading:

The first high-school seniors to apply to college since the
Supreme Court’s landmark decision have had to sort through a
morass of conflicting guidance.

From June: The Supreme Court rejected affirmative action
programs at Harvard and U.N.C.

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