Is this not just a continuation of the Affirmative Action ruling?
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>Last fall, 45% of Hopkins’ first-year students were Asian, the university reported in December, up from about 26% just two years ago. The massive shift came after the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that forbade colleges from considering race in admissions, but other selective colleges did not see such a dramatic swing. It’s flummoxed experts and threatened Hopkins’ reputation as one of the most racially diverse campuses in its class.
>Researchers thought they would see “very marginal, minimal shifts” in Asian enrollment at elite universities like Hopkins after the U.S. banned affirmative action, said OiYan Poon, co-director at the College Admissions Future Co-Laborative.
>So far, they’ve been mostly right. The share of Asian students at Columbia and Brown universities slightly increased from 2023 to 2024, the most recent year for which federal data is available, but it held steady or decreased at other Ivy League schools.
>Students for Fair Admissions, the group that fought for the ban on affirmative action, was made up of white and Asian families who alleged that Harvard’s admissions process put them at an unfair disadvantage. Harvard now reports its first-year class is 41% Asian, up from 37% in 2023.
>At Hopkins, the trend defies convention.
From 2023 to 2024, Hopkins’ first-year class jumped from 26% to 41% Asian. The undergraduate student body as a whole rose from 23% Asian to 29% Asian in that time, while the share of Black and Hispanic students shrank.
>After the 2023 ban on affirmative action, the share of Black students in Hopkins’ first-year class nosedived. The year before the ban, Black students made up 10% of the first-year class. The year after, they amounted to just 3%.
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Is this not just a continuation of the Affirmative Action ruling?
Key points from the article:
>Last fall, 45% of Hopkins’ first-year students were Asian, the university reported in December, up from about 26% just two years ago. The massive shift came after the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that forbade colleges from considering race in admissions, but other selective colleges did not see such a dramatic swing. It’s flummoxed experts and threatened Hopkins’ reputation as one of the most racially diverse campuses in its class.
>Researchers thought they would see “very marginal, minimal shifts” in Asian enrollment at elite universities like Hopkins after the U.S. banned affirmative action, said OiYan Poon, co-director at the College Admissions Future Co-Laborative.
>So far, they’ve been mostly right. The share of Asian students at Columbia and Brown universities slightly increased from 2023 to 2024, the most recent year for which federal data is available, but it held steady or decreased at other Ivy League schools.
>Students for Fair Admissions, the group that fought for the ban on affirmative action, was made up of white and Asian families who alleged that Harvard’s admissions process put them at an unfair disadvantage. Harvard now reports its first-year class is 41% Asian, up from 37% in 2023.
>At Hopkins, the trend defies convention.
From 2023 to 2024, Hopkins’ first-year class jumped from 26% to 41% Asian. The undergraduate student body as a whole rose from 23% Asian to 29% Asian in that time, while the share of Black and Hispanic students shrank.
>After the 2023 ban on affirmative action, the share of Black students in Hopkins’ first-year class nosedived. The year before the ban, Black students made up 10% of the first-year class. The year after, they amounted to just 3%.