BOSTON—Federal prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to sentence the mastermind of the largest U.S. college admissions fraud scheme ever uncovered to six years in prison after he helped them secure the convictions of dozens of wealthy parents including Hollywood celebrities. Prosecutors made the recommendation a week before William “Rick” Singer, the college admissions consultant […]
The future of racial quotas in university admissions will depend largely on the outcome of one of the most hotly disputed and closely watched cases of the Supreme Court’s new term. On Oct. 31, the court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the long-running case of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. President and […]
Are Asians being discriminated against? That’s the question facing many students and their parents here in the United States, and it’s going all the way to the Supreme Court. On Monday, the court said it would allow a Virginia public high school’s admissions policy to continue—despite a group that challenged it and said it is […]
A group of parents, students, and teachers fighting against an admissions policy that a judge says discriminated against Asian Americans asked the Supreme Court on April 8 to intervene. The updated policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) removed standardized tests from the equation and added “experience factors,” which included attendance […]
A students group that disagrees with how some colleges use race to determine which applicants to admit will present their case to the nation’s top court. The Supreme Court on Monday announced it granted writs of certiorari, or requests for review of lower court decisions, from Students for Fair Admissions in cases involving the University […]
