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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 16, 20182 min read
Harvard denies anti-Asian bias
Harvard’s admissions process is on trial, charged with bias against Asian-American students, reports Anemona Hartocollis in the New York...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 16, 20182 min read
End the craziness with college lottery
Stanford offered admission to 2,040 of the 47,450 students who applied in 2018: That’s 4.3 percent, a new low. Most of the 45,410 who...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 15, 20182 min read
Harvard discriminates against introverts
Harvard discriminates against introverts, argues Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of education and history at Penn, in the Washington...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 5, 20181 min read
Is this the end of race-based admissions preferences?
The Trump administration has revoked Obama-era guidelines calling for colleges to use race in admissions. In a joint letter Tuesday, the...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 17, 20182 min read
Harvard: Asians aren’t likable, kind, ‘respected’
Asian-Americans are less likely to get into Harvard, despite higher grades and test scores and stronger extracurriculars than other...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20171 min read
FIRE names 10 worst college for free speech
The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech include Harvard, Georgetown, the University of Oregon and University of South Carolina, according...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 10, 20172 min read
College kids: Violence is ‘self-defense’
Violence by masked anarchists led Berkeley officials to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing commentator. (The publicity...
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