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After Affirmative Action: Takeaways—and Puzzles—From College Admissions Data

The 2023 Supreme Court ruling banning race-conscious admissions caused an 18% drop in Black enrollment and a 4% decline in Hispanic enrollment at 85 highly selective U.S. colleges.

Most people believed that the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to end affirmative action in higher education admissions would cause a big drop in Black and Hispanic enrollment at the nation’s top colleges. What happened is more complicated. Overall, more Black and Hispanic students enrolled in four-year universities in fall 2024 than in fall 2023. But in nearly all highly selective private and public colleges—the 85 that accept 25 percent or fewer …

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hechingerreport.org broke the news in on Thursday, February 12, 2026.
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