Asians With “Very Familiar Profiles”: How Princeton’s Admissions Officers Talk About Race

(Buzzfeed) by Molley Hensley-Clancy. A trove of documents created during a federal investigation into Princeton University offers an unprecedented glimpse at how elite college admissions officers talk about race. Outsiders have long debated how the secretive Ivy League admissions system considers the race of its applicants. Within the schools, such discussions form one of the […]

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Princeton Is Scrambling To Block Its Admissions Records From Being Released

(Buzzfeed) by Molly Hensley-Clancy. Princeton is scrambling to prevent the release of a trove of its most sensitive admissions documents, including individual student files and information about how the school judges and selects its freshman class. The data was provided to the Education Department as part of a years-long investigation, making it subject to Freedom […]

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