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Tag Archives: holistic review
A Look at the Data: Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians?
While 8asians has covered Asian Americans and college admissions over the years, a recent article from the data services company Priceonomics takes a data driven approach to summarize the arguments in the debate whether elite colleges discriminate against Asian American … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Education
Tagged college admissions, data analysis, holistic review, Priceonomics, Robin Dhor
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“Holistic” Admissions at UC Berkeley: An Insider View
Question: What activity would have enough ethical dilemnas to scare off an ethics professor? Answer: UC Berkeley’s “ holistic” Admissions process. Ruth Starkman, who at the time was an ethics professor at the University of San Francisco, has written this … Continue reading