""As federal and state policy continues to evolve around how institutions use demographic and geographic information in admissions, we are making a change to ensure our work continues to effectively serve students and institutions,""
""I'm no fan of College Board of course ... but I thought Landscape was a good and thoughtful product," he wrote. "Now, it's going away. You don't have to be Wile E. Coyote to figure out why. Someone in DC has suggested it's too close to 'race based admissions' (a thing that does not exist) and 'it'd be a shame if something happened to your company.' Or their lawyers rolled over voluntarily.""
""Since the 2023 Supreme Court opinion in our Harvard and UNC cases, Students for Fair Admissions raised has concerns that Landscape was little more than a disguised proxy for race in the admissions process. We are gratified that this problematic tool will no longer be used to influence who is and who is not admitted to America's colleges and universities,""
College Board discontinued Landscape, a tool that provided colleges with publicly available information about applicants' high schools and neighborhoods. The organization described the change as a response to evolving federal and state policy governing the use of demographic and geographic information in admissions. The decision follows scrutiny of geographic recruitment and concerns that area-based practices could act as proxies for race. Responses were mixed: some enrollment professionals praised Landscape as thoughtful and useful, while opponents who challenged affirmative action welcomed its removal as preventing covert racial proxies in admissions processes.
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