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Article: Ex-U of I official aewanted to denyAE some students.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2009
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Byline: Associated Press
A former admissions official at the University of Illinois testified Monday that the school should discontinue use of a special system for admitting politically connected students, saying there were students the office "wanted to deny, who we were told to admit."
Abel Montoya told the stateAEs Admissions Review Commission that his job was to track the list, which contained between 150 and 165 students u most from affluent high schools in the Chicago suburbs u in the last few years.
He also said there were twice yearly meetings, just before the December and February admissions notification deadline, during which ...