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You're not going to get accepted into a top university on merit alone

  • Written by Natasha Warikoo, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University
imageMore and more students at Harvard are examining their admission files to try to understand how they got in. The U.S. government is also plans to examine the files as part of a discrimination case filed by 63 Asian- American groups.Shutterstock.com

After weeks of negotiation, Harvard University recently agreed to provide the Department of Justice...

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