It's only been a year after the U.S. Supreme Court banned Affirmative Action, and university enrollment is feeling its effects.
This fall marks the first undergraduate class to be admitted into universities since the U.S. Supreme Court banned Affirmative Action last year. According to the New York Times, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) is one of the first major schools to release the demographics of its freshman class since the ban. Here’s what M.I.T. revealed about their class of 2028 in comparison to their class of 2027:
Black students enrolled: 15% last year ➡️ 5% this year.
Hispanic and Latino students enrolled: 16% last year ➡️ 11% this year.
White students enrolled: 38% last year ➡️ 37% this year.
Asian American students enrolled: 40% last year ➡️ 47% this year.
Questions were raised about whether MIT had previously admitted under-qualified students as a result of affirmative action, while others speculated that the real issue might be MIT's heavy reliance on standardized test scores, which disproportionately impacted the enrollment of Black and Latino students after Affirmative Action was banned.
