US EditionBlack enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds
Harvard’s Black and Hispanic enrollment fell by several percentage points after the Supreme Court banned affirmative action; international student numbers also declined, while Asian American enrollment rose.
- On Thursday, Harvard University and an Associated Press analysis found Black enrollment dropped at many elite colleges in the two years since affirmative action ended.
- Since the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling, President Donald Trump escalated oversight by ordering expanded admissions data from 1,700 schools, while colleges anticipated legal and political pressure from SFFA and the administration.
- The data indicate Hispanic students' share fell from 16 to 11, while Asian American freshmen increased from 37% to 41%, and international students dropped from 18% to 15%.
- The AP analysis finds Black freshman shares as low as 2% at some campuses, with Princeton University seeing its lowest proportion since 1968 and nearly half fewer new Black students in two years.
- Federal reporting changes have prompted many colleges to delay demographic data, Harvard University to postpone release until fall, and higher education experts to warn of White House pressure on diversity efforts.
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Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, according to new analysis
WASHINGTON — After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions, leaving some campuses with Black populations as small as 2% of their freshman class, according to an Associated Press analysis. New enrollment figures from 20 selective colleges provide mounting evidence of a backslide in Black enrollment. On almo…
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