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All posts tagged "Ivy League"

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  [WaPo] She’s a first-generation college student with her pick of 5 Ivy League schools

    — Brandi Moore insists she really is normal. She didn’t put on airs when she applied to more than a dozen colleges. She told Columbia University that she watched “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Her Common...

  • Posted June 23, 2015
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  [Boston Globe] To get into elite colleges, some advised to ‘appear less Asian’

  Brian Taylor is director of Ivy Coach, a Manhattan company that advises families on how to get their students into elite colleges. A number of his clients are Asian American, and Taylor is frank about...

  • Posted June 3, 2015
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  [BI] Perfect ACT score couldn’t get this student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford, says it’s because he’s Asian

  With a perfect ACT score and 13 Advanced Placement courses under his belt, Michael Wang applied to seven Ivy League universities and Stanford in 2013. An Asian-American, Wang suspected his race might work against him....

  • Posted June 2, 2015
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  [NR] What Ivy League affirmative action really looks like from the inside

      Asian Americans have finally had enough. They’re tired of working harder, achieving more academically, then having that held against them as they try to fulfill their educational dreams in our nation’s most elite...

  • Posted May 20, 2015
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  Tides may turn for Asian discrimination in Ivy League admissions

  In an interview with The Korea Times, Virginia-based director of the Project on Fair Representation Edward Blum, who filed lawsuits against Harvard and UNC says, “The number of Asians admitted 20 years ago is...

  • Posted November 21, 2014
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