The affirmative-action wars are far from over
Today’s must-read: The first year of race-neutral admissions at elite colleges did not go the way anyone expected.
 

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The end of affirmative action was expected to cause a drop in Black and Latino enrollment at elite colleges. The results show that “the war over the use of race in college admissions is far from over,” Rose Horowitch writes.

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When colleges began announcing the makeup of their incoming freshman classes last year—the first admissions cycle since the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action—there seemed to have been some kind of mistake. The Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard had been almost universally expected to produce big changes. Elite universities warned of a return to diversity levels not seen since the early 1960s, when their college classes had only a handful of Black students.

And yet, when the numbers came in, several of the most selective colleges in the country reported the opposite results.

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