Affirmative action: Puzzles from college admissions data

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 actually more complicated. Overall, more Black and Hispanic students enrolled in four-year universities in fall 2024 than in fall 2023. […] The post After affirmative action: Four takeaways — and puzzles — from college admissions data appeared first on The Hechinger Report.