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Several previous and current faculty members of the hotel school said that the administration is often too focused on gender diversity to realize the importance or put the effort into achieving racial diversity.
An expelled student said pressure from her parents had led her to deceive her family and several universities for years.
A petition with nearly 400 signatories demanding Cornell and other universities to make public “all internally written admissions policies and data about legacy treatment” will be “hand-delivered” to President Martha E. Pollack next week.
The University shared its support for students peacefully protesting, promising that participating in the #NeverAgain movement will not affect admission decisions.
Knuth said Cornell has enrolled more international students this year who require aid than in 2016, but students criticized the newly-instituted need-aware admissions policy.
“The number of Cornell students and alumni applying to law school has decreased significantly,” Sparrow said. “For Cornell seniors and alumni applying to law schools during that time, the decline was even greater at 53 percent.”
“People see that positive end result, but I would definitely like to say that it did not come easy,” Gauthier said. “Nothing on this grand of a scale comes easy. Everything that has led to this moment was hard.”
Affirmative action — does it undermine student potential or does it enhance it?
Students admitted to the Class of 2020 represent the evolution of Cornell’s demographics, as 1,718 students — or 27 percent of the admitted freshman class — self-identify as minorities.
A group of 80 public and private universities announced plans on Sept. 28 to improve the college admission process by launching a new application platform. The group, which includes all eight Ivy League institutions, is known as the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success and aims to reshape the traditional approach to admissions and increase educational access for low-income families and underrepresented groups. The coalition formed in response to barriers low-income students often face in the college admissions process. They plan to launch a new application website which they hope will make the process more broadly accessible.
“The schools in the Coalition have individually tried many different and creative approaches to address these challenges,” said Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale University, in a statement from the coalition.