The argument is Scots, others from the home nations and applicants from other parts of the EU would all be classed together.
"The record evidence demonstrates that Harvard's race-based admissions process significantly disadvantages Asian-American applicants compared to applicants of other racial groups — including both white applicants and applicants from other racial minority groups," the DOJ said in court papers filed Thursday.
In addition to the applicants to the LTF programme, 297 applicants to the YI programme (39 approved and 258 rejected applicants) from the years 2001 and 2002 were included in the present study (see Figure 1).
Our study involved publication and citation data for 668 applicants to the Long-Term Fellowship programme from the year 1998 (130 approved, 538 rejected) and 297 applicants to the Young Investigator programme (39 approved and 258 rejected applicants) from the years 2001 and 2002.
In addition to high passes in the High School Diploma and the SAT, successful applicants from the United States have normally achieved 5s in Advanced Placement Tests in appropriate subjects".
Overall, the rise in undergraduate numbers was fuelled by increases in applications from overseas and European Union-based students – applicants from the EU were up by 11% – as well as above-average increases in the number of students accepted from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The latest statistics, published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas), show 120,194 applicants from the UK, compared with 133,357 this time last year.
The ongoing admissions during 2014 and 2015 continued to attract applicants from the same cross-section of education, preparing an interesting cohort of students for the first delivery of the subject Game-Based Learning in 2015.
The IEP program had fewer applicants from the U.S.A. and more from Australia; this could be explained by British Columbia having a lower U.S.A. and higher immigration rate from Asia and the Pacific than other provinces (Canadian average = 9% from USA, 25% from Asia and the Pacific; B.C. 6% and 59% respectively).
The DOJ also declined to prosecute a case of misconduct involving a polygraph examiner who admitted to the OIG of "repeatedly using techniques" that violated CIA policies and guidelines and disqualified applicants from employment with the agency.
