When the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions in 2023, experts practically heralded the resurrection of Jim Crow. It would be “catastrophic for the presence of marginalized racial groups on the nation’s leading campuses,” one Yale Law professor hyperventilated in The New York Times.
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A recent study, one of the first to look at the impact of the Supreme Court case across a wide range of colleges and not just the Top 50, paints a more nuanced picture of admissions. The report, from the nonprofit advocacy group Class Action, found that while Black and Latino enrollments indeed slumped at selective schools in the year following the Supreme Court’s decision, public universities picked up some of the slack. The report raises some red flags, but the threats are manageable if we muster a little common sense.
Here’s the breakdown: In the wake of the ruling, Black freshmen at the country’s 50 most selective schools plunged by more than one-quarter, while Latino freshmen numbers dropped 10 percent. But at flagship universities (the oldest and largest public institutions in their respective states), freshmen in those demographics increased by 8 percent. Four-year public colleges also saw rises, albeit smaller — 7 percent for Latino freshmen, and 4 percent for Black students.
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Worries persist about what’s known as the “cascade” effect, through which students of color who might have gone to elite schools instead take up slots in less-selective colleges, forcing less-qualified Black and Latino students out and into even-less-selective schools. As Class Action’s researchers noted, this collapses the numbers of Black and brown students at the schools that boast the highest graduation rates and post-grad incomes.
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