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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Students on campus at Harvard University. Challenges to affirmative action at Harvard University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will be heard by the Supreme Court which could end the practice of affirmative action in college admissions. MADHAV KOHLI/DFP FILE

Supreme Court to hear Harvard and UNC affirmative action case

Cici Yu February 4, 2022
The Supreme Court agreed last Monday to review challenges to race-conscious admissions at Harvard and UNC.
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Student Immigrant Movement strives to support students seeking higher education

Divya Sood February 24, 2021
A Massachusetts-based grassroots organization led by immigrant youth — the Student Immigrant Movement — virtually relaunched their College Access Program Friday to support immigrant students’ seeking higher education.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The University’s ‘diversity’ marketing is misleading, hurtful

Editors February 18, 2021
BU’s marketing — and the handful of diversity victories — it clings to is not representative of its reality. Though it may be implementing anti-racist policies, the change is not visible in classrooms, on campus or at an administrative level.
EDIT: Admissions of the Truth

EDIT: Admissions of the Truth

Editors January 21, 2015

With college admissions getting more and more selective, inevitably, more and more students will receive the dreaded apology letter that comes with a rejection from their choice university. It’s no secret...

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