Institutions recruit in specific areas for a range of reasons, one expert told Inside Higher Ed , including looking for students who excel in specific extracurriculars or sports.

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The ways in which colleges decide whom to accept in their incoming classes have recently come under increased scrutiny from the Trump administration, which has used settlements, a memo and an executive action to pressure colleges to change their admissions practices.

Those directives reflect the administration’s focus on ensuring what they call merit in the process, as well as an effort to expand the Supreme Court’s decision banning race-conscious admissions to bar any type of race-based program

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