DOJ probes top Virginia high school over alleged anti-Asian discrimination in admissions

The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia over allegations tha...

UCLA med school accused of discriminating against white, Asian applicants

A federal lawsuit filed against UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine claims that the institution continues to consider race in its admissi...

Harvard dean unhappy with impact of SCOTUS ruling on admissions

Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana expressed disappointment over the university’s inability to consider race in admissions, stating, ...

New York ‘equal rights’ proposal slammed for potential discrimination against Asian students

Critics argue that New York’s “Equal Rights Amendment,” also known as Proposition 1, intended to expand anti-discrimination protections, cou...

Thomas Jefferson High School falls to No. 14 in national rankings

Virginia-based Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ), once ranked as the top public high school in the U.S., dropped ...

California bans legacy, donor admissions in all colleges and universities

California has banned legacy and donor preferences in the admissions process of private colleges and universities. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed ...

Law group asks Supreme Court to hear new race-based admissions case at elite high school

The group alleges the school’s new admissions plan was designed to “achieve the same results as overt racial discrimination” ...

Asian American students less likely to be accepted to universities than white applicants: study

Asian Americans are less likely to be accepted to colleges or universities than white applicants, according to a recent study published by t...

Harvard admits record number of Asian American applicants amid SCOTUS affirmative action fight

Amid allegations of bias against Asian students in its admissions process, Harvard University welcomed its largest proportion of Asian Ameri...

US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in college admissions

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments concerning admissions programs that take race into consideration at Harvard University an...

New York City reverses on controversial high school admissions process

New York City Schools Chancellor David C. Banks announced that the city is rolling back a pandemic-era moratorium that allowed more low-inc...

New York state Sen. John Liu pushes for return to merit-based high school admissions

Sen. John C. Liu (NY-D) sent a letter to New York City’s Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor David Banks on Friday requesting to remov...

Lowell High School to return to merit-based admissions after San Francisco school board vote

The San Francisco Board of Education voted on Wednesday for Lowell High School to return to academic-based admissions after two years of us...

Asian and white parents sue Boston Public Schools to overturn exam school’s admission policy

An assembly of Asian and white parents filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Boston Public Schools in hopes of having at least five of their c...

Top SF high school sees record spike in failing grades after dropping merit-based admission system

San Francisco’s Lowell High School is seeing a record spike in D’s and F’s among its first batch of students admitted through a new lottery...

School board member says ‘anti-Asian feel’ to new admission policy of country’s top high school

Fairfax County school board member Abrar Omeish is under fire after a text message to another board member about the district’s admissions ...

University of Maryland draws controversy for separating Asian students from ‘students of color’

The University of Maryland drew backlash over its enrollment and admissions graphic that separated Asian students from “Students of Co...

University of California Faces Lawsuit Over Discrimination of Asian American Applicants

A UCLA professor and a new Asian American organization are suing the University of California for withholding records that could expose the ...