by
Sam Mintz
| 01/16/2012
The Obama administration released new college admission guidelines in December in an attempt to increase racial diversity on campuses across the country. However, members of the Brandeis administration do not expect the guidelines to have any effect on admissions at Brandeis. "Most of the highly competitive universities like Brandeis that have a desire to remain accessible and diverse have gone to great efforts over the past several years to create [minority] recruitment programs and opportunities," said Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel in an interview with the Justice. Dean of Admissions Mark Spencer also said that he did not think the guidelines will change anything about Brandeis' admissions process and that attaining a diverse student body is something that Brandeis has been doing well for years. "For a school our size, to have 3,200 students and over a hundred countries represented, and students coming from all these different backgrounds, it's a pretty amazing thing to be able to have as diverse a population as we have," he said in an interview with the Justice. Flagel also expressed pride in Brandeis' success in achieving diversity. "In some ways, I think Brandeis represents the best of how affirmative action can be practiced in the admissions process," he said.
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