Huffington Post
Latino Voices
Posted: 04/12/2012 1:36 pm Updated: 04/12/2012 5:35 pm
Changes to college admission policy in Texas may be leaving some out - namely Hispanics, according to a study conducted by Princeton researchers Dr. Angel Harris and Dr. Maria Tienda.
Under Texas's new Top 10 Percent program, public universities must enroll students based on their performance in comparison to their high school classmates, rather than with all applicants. The new policy ensures that high school students at the top of their class are admitted, with aims to enroll more students from "poor communities."
But some argue that this policy is not as effective as the prior affirmative action at selecting a racially and ethnically diverse student body.
Full Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/after-policy-change-study_n_1420596.html
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Crimson Academy nets promising results
The Bay State Banner
November 3, 2011— vol. 47, no 13
Kenneth J. Cooper
Harvard University and other elite colleges have encountered criticism because students from upscale families have come to dominate the schools’ black enrollments. African American alumni of an earlier generation and other critics want more low-income students admitted.
National studies, though, show that only a small percentage of high school seniors from poor African American or Hispanic families even apply to the country’s best colleges. Most of these students incorrectly assume they would never get into top schools or could not possibly afford to attend them.
For most of the past decade, seven college-prep programs — most housed at Harvard and other prestigious private universities — have made some headway in reversing this trend and misconception.
Full Story: http://www.baystatebanner.com/local11-2011-11-03
November 3, 2011— vol. 47, no 13
Kenneth J. Cooper
Harvard University and other elite colleges have encountered criticism because students from upscale families have come to dominate the schools’ black enrollments. African American alumni of an earlier generation and other critics want more low-income students admitted.
National studies, though, show that only a small percentage of high school seniors from poor African American or Hispanic families even apply to the country’s best colleges. Most of these students incorrectly assume they would never get into top schools or could not possibly afford to attend them.
For most of the past decade, seven college-prep programs — most housed at Harvard and other prestigious private universities — have made some headway in reversing this trend and misconception.
Full Story: http://www.baystatebanner.com/local11-2011-11-03
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