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At gatherings of admissions officials, there is much talk about students who suffer discrimination or other hardships and how colleges should help them to enroll. But as Greg McCandless noted Friday at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, there is a group that “people were not talking about” — gay applicants.

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Historically black colleges pursue diversity | IndyStar.com: "Central State, where Garland is president, has made a push for Hispanic and white students in a quest to swell its enrollment. So have many of the nation's 104 other historically black colleges, which a federal law defines as 'any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans.'"

Amy Gutmann - Early Admissions Aren't the Problem - washingtonpost.com: "At the University of Pennsylvania and many other colleges and universities, early admissions have not been an impediment to improving access, and abolishing the practice will do no significant social good. Because of our outreach activities and improved financial aid policies, many more minorities and low-income students are applying to Penn for both early and regular decisions. Once again this year we enrolled a record number (and proportion) of minority students.

But we will accomplish nothing significant in improving access for students from low- and middle-income families unless we focus our attention on strengthening our need-based financial aid program and our outreach to students who attend schools where they have not been informed about the availability of need-based financial aid."