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Topic: college admissions

Lori Loughlin (AP)

Loughlin faces new bribery charges

Jon Blistein - Rolling Stone
Harvard University (Getty/Pgiam)

Judge sides with Harvard in admissions

Vinay Harpalani - The Conversation
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The new SAT "adversity score" is flawed

Leigh Patel - The Conversation
Harvard University (Getty/Pgiam)

How colleges use kids' social media feed

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media
Felicity Huffman; Lori Loughlin (Getty/AP)

White privilege and "Varsity Blues"

Chauncey DeVega
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Are rich parents more unethical?

David M. Mayer - The Conversation
University of Southern California (AP/Reed Saxon)

College admissions racket and charity

Sarah Webber, Deborah Archambeault - The Conversation
Felicity Huffman; Lori Loughlin (AP/vJordan Strauss/Getty/David Livingston)

College admissions in favor of the rich

Rick Eckstein - The Conversation
Felicity Huffman, left, and William H. Macy arrive at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP) (John Shearer/invision/ap)

Felicity Huffman charged in bribe scheme

Igor Derysh
Parkland shooting victim and survior David Hogg; center, joins Manuel Oliver and his wife Patricia Oliver, parents of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, and other members of the 50 Miles More walk against gun violence rally at the end of their walk on August 26, 2018 in Springfield, Massachusetts. (Getty/Scott Eisen)

Why David Hogg deserves Harvard

Amanda Marcotte
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What college rankings actually measure

Jonathan Wai - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)

Fight against affirmative action

Daniel Golden - ProPublica
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In debt to the law

Erin L. Thompson - TomDispatch.com
Students demonstrate in support of affirmative action (AP/Al Behrman)

Asians as a wedge issue

Amanda Marcotte
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Colleges surveil your tweets

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media
Robin Williams in "Dead Poets Society" (Touchstone Pictures)

The letter I'll never forget

Mark Dursin
Mindy Kaling (AP/Richard Shotwell)

"Almost Black" is all bad

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=2136024'>sshepard</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-878848p1.html'>Irina Mos</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

College admissions are a joke

Matthew Bruenig
(AP/Jessica Hill)

The 1 percent's Yale loophole

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, Matthew Bruenig
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