The complaint against Harvard highlights the school's history of using similar language to describe Jewish students nearly a century ago, which led to a "diversity" rationale designed to limit Jewish enrollment in favor of applicants from regions with fewer Jews, such as the Midwest.
It has one of the most liberal refugee policies in Africa, granting approval to virtually all asylum applicants from the region, except Rwanda, which seeks to have its refugees returned.
Out of a pool of 35,000 applicants from every region in the United Kingdom, 2,400 "plinthers" (24 per day) were chosen by a random computer selection to occupy the plinth for the space of an hour to do whatever they liked.
Such influences include preferentially allocating funded local and international tuberculosis training places to eligible applicants from geographical regions with relatively high disease burden, and making fully-funded tuberculosis training conditional on trainees working in a tuberculosis high prevalence region for a specified period.
For reasons of geograpy and prestige, the Ive League attracts a stream of applicants from the New York region.
Mr. Safir also said Los Angeles was forced on the road to recruit because it could not find enough applicants in its own region.
A panel appointed by the London region interviewed applicants and drew up a shortlist of three from whom local members could choose.
She taught French and Spanish for three years as part of Teach First's Leadership Development Programme and now leads a team of Teach First recruiters to attract applicants from the Yorkshire region.
Schools can only accept so many applicants from a single region without compromising their diversity vision, and all highly-ranked schools are getting a lot of applications from India.
His break into television came when he applied for a job as a BBC drama producer in Northern Ireland, the only applicant from outside the region – while mainland Britons were put off by the Troubles, Boyle's Irish roots and experience of the region meant he had no fear.
