February 28, 2003
Class-Rank Plans Found Lacking
Admissions policies in California, Florida, and Texas that guarantee slots at public colleges to students near the top of their high-school graduating classes have only modest effects on increasing diversity at state institutions and by themselves do not adequately replace affirmative action, say two reports released this month by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
Other race-attentive policies that accompany class-rank plans, such as colleges' efforts to reach out to
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