We focus on students pursuing surgical specialties and ask whether diversity concerns are more prominent among applicants to surgical programs than among applicants to nonsurgical programs.
Applicants from prominent Chinese families, interviews show, often faced few job interviews and relaxed standards.
Mr. Hawes caused a stir in 1964 when he published a study showing that Harvard, Princeton and Yale were taking fewer sons of prominent families in favor of applicants with better grades.
Yet this small, unaccredited program has increased its class size 25percentt since 1995 while more prominent business schools are struggling for applicants.
When Christopher Gray pitched the idea on Shark Tank, he turned heads by explaining that $100 million worth of scholarship money goes unused each year, because applicants mostly compete for the most prominent ones.
Ms. Tang, who went to high school in Shanghai, didn't exactly choose to attend Delaware, a public institution of about 21,000 students that admits about half its applicants — and counts Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. among prominent graduates.
More information has been revealed about the admissions scandal at the University of Illinois, in which top officials at the flagship school are accused of accepting applicants at the intervention of politicians and prominent donors.
After much huffing and puffing, the United States managed to get Ukraine, another WTO applicant, to close some of its most prominent factories producing pirated compact discs.
CHICAGO — Top officials at the University of Illinois developed a sophisticated shadow admissions process for applicants who were supported by politicians, donors and other prominent sponsors, a state commission set up to investigate irregularities at the institution concluded Thursday.
The applicant, who was rejected, was married to a "prominent financially well-qualified white woman," according to the suit, and though neither is named, the timing and circumstances suggest that it was Mr. Banderas.
