How the End of Affirmative Action Could Affect the College Admissions Process

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "I would hope that the schools predicted the outcome of today's decision and have already been preparing for this possibility," Victor Goode, a law professor at the City University of New York who's practiced in the area of affirmative action, says.
57% : "Affirmative action was never a requirement of any law, which is why it was so easy to strike down," Tillery says.
56% : Affirmative action policies for higher learning institutions emerged in the 1960s as a popular method to combat racial inequality.
56% : The average gap between Black and white student graduation rates at the top dozen public universities without affirmative action was 10.1% in 2020, the University of California Los Angeles found.
56% : By contrast, the gap was 6% at the top dozen public universities that used affirmative action.
53% : Some experts argue that other diversity initiatives don't work as well as affirmative action, however.
49% : Supporters of affirmative action protest near the U.S. Supreme Court Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
48% : "Many people wrongly believe affirmative action allows unqualified students to be admitted before qualified students," Biden told reporters on Thursday.
46% : Socioeconomic inequality, systemic racism, and inequity in K-12 education have contributed to BIPOC exclusion and underrepresentation in colleges and universities, research shows, and affirmative action has contributed to the rise in minority students enrollment, experts say.
43% : Experts fear that progress may be at-risk with affirmative action gutted.
41% : The University of California system eliminated affirmative action in 1995.
39% : "It's not part of Title VII, it was never viewed as any kind of anti-discrimination work.

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