{"id":592478,"date":"2023-09-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/high-schoolers-prep-first-college-applications-in-post-affirmative-action-environment\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T09:00:00","slug":"high-schoolers-prep-first-college-applications-in-post-affirmative-action-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/high-schoolers-prep-first-college-applications-in-post-affirmative-action-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"#High schoolers prep first college applications in post-affirmative action environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/AP22304548442684-e1688057106642.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>High school seniors are preparing for the first round of college <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lications since the Supreme Court decision nixing universities\u2019 use of affirmative action in the process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the new landscape, school counselors and advocates are urging students to find ways to take advantage of their essays to talk about their \u201clived experiences\u201d after the high court in June ruled universities no longer could use a person\u2019s race or ethnicity to help boost their application.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The court, however, said students should be allowed to talk about their experiences with discrimination and how their personal situations have shaped who they are.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, as all parties agree, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant\u2019s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,\u201d Chief Justice John Roberts said in the majority opinion on the ruling.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While not all schools used affirmative action in their admissions before that decision, many did, including most of the nation\u2019s top universities, such as Harvard and Yale.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ruling was, I think, left intentionally vague because there are still so many different ways that the universities will have to think about how do they incorporate or think about race or how do they exclude it from their admissions,\u201d said Grace Dhanraj, an expert admissions consultant for Quad Education Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While numerous schools released statements after the affirmative action case saying they are committed to diversity, some high school seniors don\u2019t see a path forward for them, even if they shift emphasis to their essays. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dhanraj says she has seen high schoolers leaving out schools they are qualified for from their application pool because the lack of affirmative action makes them feel as though they don\u2019t have a chance at admission. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI think the biggest issue we\u2019re seeing is that students have kind of a philosophy where they actually could be able to attend [but don\u2019t apply] because they don\u2019t think that the opportunity is there for them anymore, or because they think the university doesn\u2019t want them anymore,\u201d Dhanraj said.<\/p>\n<p>Only eight states had affirmative action banned in college admissions before the court\u2019s decision, leaving thousands of colleges the task of revamping their admissions process and millions of high schoolers to figure out what needs to be changed in their applications. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I\u2019ve advised students and families to really write about their own lived experiences. So this is not necessarily new for me, but it\u2019s certainly going to be new for a lot of colleges and a lot of high school counselors who are advising students in the application process,\u201d said Jill Orcutt, the global lead for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Experts say even before the Supreme Court ruling, students struggled with writing about themselves in their college essays, which have now become an even more important part of the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI encourage students to take advantage of those writing workshops offered by colleges and universities,\u201d Orcutt said. \u201cThe best advice to students \u2026 is to write about themselves, to really think about their personal statements as a reflection of their own lived experience and what their goals in life are and how they think about achieving those goals.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orcutt served as the associate vice chancellor for enrollment at the University of California, Merced, in a state where affirmative action in college admissions has been banned since 1996.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>She says she has seen many students over the years who are not comfortable writing about themselves, but colleges are looking for \u201cself-reflection.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, a lot of students want to write about their families and their parents or their grandparents attending a particular institution. I think it\u2019s good advice for students and their families to focus on the applicant, and that means writing about their lived experience, talking about any obstacles that they may have experienced in life and what they learn from it and how they plan to utilize that experience moving forward to think about their own personal success,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the affirmative action case is not the only major change high schoolers have had to navigate. Many are also dealing with changing test score requirements as schools pick up or drop tests, such as the SAT and ACT.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s been already a tough time. I think the whiplash between all these new things such as test-optional \u2014 now having to have a LinkedIn is pretty much almost a mandatory requirement to getting in, and then also now the affirmative action decision,\u201d Dhanraj said. \u201cSo I think students have a lot more questions without any clarity from the schools.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The future of the application process could be steered toward a more \u201cholistic\u201d approach, according to experts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not looking at one aspect, maybe racially or ethnically, we\u2019re not just looking at that piece, but we\u2019re also looking at the opportunity of experiences, the diversity of the experiences that are being had, as well as the opportunity to be inclusive, and an opportunity to be able to be equitable, to give an equitable access to those opportunities for young people,\u201d said Tara Bellevue, vice president Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access Strategy for NAF, a nonprofit focused on preparing high schoolers for the future.\u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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