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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. "Please explain why you think Donald Trump is the best president ever." 
2. "What do you think President Trump's biggest success was, and why." 
3. "If you had the chance to support MAGA by working for President Trump, what would you do?"
4. "Explain a time when MAGA impacted your life. Write about how it positively changed your future." [/quote]
This just shows how ridiculous and disgusting the past essay prompts were, just in the opposite direction.[/quote]

There was nothing in the prompt that prevents the answer from discussing a political community of any persuasion.[/quote]

Sure, you could talk about anytime but these prompts didn't really exist before they banned affirmative action.  These prompts were fishing for stories about race. [/quote]

the diversity prompts existed for those who applied fall of 2019(graduated in 2020) and were there every year through high school class of 2023 which was the last admissions cycle when affirmative action was still legal. not sure about pre 2020 as that was my first kid's turn[/quote]

The prompts started showing up about the same time SFFA gained steam. We also see an increase in Asian admissions as SFFA heated up.  By the time the SCOTUS opinion was released, the Asian population at ivy+ had gone to about 25-30% after sitting at ~18% for generations.  We saw a spike in these sort of essay prompts after the ruling [/quote]

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