{"id":2023029,"date":"2023-09-06T04:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-prompts-college-diversity-essay-loophole\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T04:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:22:08","slug":"supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-prompts-college-diversity-essay-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-prompts-college-diversity-essay-loophole\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court ruling sparks college diversity essay &#8216;loophole&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-prompts-college-diversity-essay-loophole%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Loophole in Affirmative Action: Discussing Race in College Admissions Essays<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court may have brought an end \u200dto affirmative action \u2062in college admissions, but universities have found a clever workaround. While the landmark ruling prohibited colleges from considering an applicant&#8217;s race in \u2062admissions decisions, it did allow admissions officers to take into account an applicant&#8217;s discussion of how race\u200d affected their life. This has led universities to openly encourage applicants to discuss \u2062their\u2063 race in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-slams-supreme-court-for-affirmative-action-decision-this-is-not-a-normal-court\/\" title=\"Biden criticizes Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling: 'Court is not normal'\">admissions essays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ruling, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-prompts-college-diversity-essay-loophole\/\" title=\"Supreme Court ruling sparks college diversity essay 'loophole'.\">overruled previous precedents allowing colleges<\/a> to consider race as a secondary factor, universities\u200b have responded by vowing\u2063 to comply with the new \u2064precedent. Harvard\u200c University and the University of \u2063North Carolina, Chapel Hill, \u2063both defendants in\u2063 the case, quoted Chief Justice John Roberts&#8217; words and pledged to comply with the Court&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>According \u2062to Brian \u2063Taylor, a managing partner at the college prep company Ivy Coach, not much \u200chas changed in the wake of the\u200d court&#8217;s \u200bruling. Many colleges have simply tweaked \u200btheir admissions essay prompts to solicit responses\u200b that more directly discuss an applicant&#8217;s race. Essay prompts for the 2023-24 cycle have been adjusted \u2063to encourage applicants to share their race and ethnic background. The nation&#8217;s most elite schools have been\u2062 at the forefront of this change, with most \u2062of them \u2063altering\u200b their admissions prompts or already having questions that indirectly ask about a student&#8217;s background.<\/p>\n<p>However, some critics argue that these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/caltech-applicants-can-now-take-online-classes-to-fulfill-calculus-physics-chemistry-requirements\/\" title=\"Caltech applicants can now fulfill calculus, physics, and chemistry requirements through online classes.\">essay questions<\/a> still allow admissions officers to consider an applicant&#8217;s\u200d race when making\u200c admissions decisions. Adam Kissel, a visiting fellow in education policy at the Heritage Foundation, believes that \u2064the new or amended essay questions make it easier for institutions to\u2064 infer an applicant&#8217;s race. While the language used in the prompts varies, the general goal\u200b is to encourage applicants to\u2062 discuss their personal background, including their race.<\/p>\n<h3>Examples of Essay Prompts:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Duke University: &#8220;Feel free to tell us\u2064 any ways in which you&#8217;re different and how\u2063 that has affected you.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Dartmouth College: &#8220;Let your life speak. Describe the environment in which you were raised and the impact it has had.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Harvard University: &#8220;Harvard has long recognized the importance of enrolling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-group-sues-yale-for-discrimination-revives-trump-era-case\/\" title=\"Student Group Sues Yale for Discrimination, Revives Trump-Era Case\">diverse student body<\/a>. Describe \u200chow your life experiences will allow you to \u200dcontribute to \u200cthe college.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Johns Hopkins University: &#8220;Tell us about an aspect of your identity (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, religion, community, etc.) or a life experience \u200bthat has shaped you as an individual and how that \u2062influenced what you&#8217;d like to pursue in college at Hopkins?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While some schools are more explicit in asking about a student&#8217;s race\u2063 or identity, others are more subtle. Regardless, these questions apply to all applicants, not just underrepresented minorities. However, for underrepresented minority applicants, it is important to make their race clear in their storytelling to ensure admissions\u2062 officers can advocate for them.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy surrounding this loophole, universities continue to use essay prompts to indirectly consider an applicant&#8217;s race \u2064in their admissions decisions. Only time will\u2063 tell if this practice will face further scrutiny in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a> to read more\u200d from The Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the court&#8217;s decision does not prevent universities from using race as a factor in a holistic review of applicants. This has led to universities openly encouraging applicants to discuss their race in essays, allowing them to indirectly consider race in admissions decisions despite the ban on affirmative action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2023030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}