Supreme Court just threw out the college admissions process as we know it: ANALYSIS

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The average gap at the top 12 public universities with affirmative action was 6%.
58% : Thursday's decision by the Supreme Court ends affirmative action in higher education as we know it, even as it allows schools to continue some limited consideration of an applicant's race.
49% : More broadly, the average Black-to-white student graduation rate gap at the top 12 public universities that do not use affirmative action was 10.1%, according to research from UCLA.
47% : Thomas joined the majority ruling against affirmative action and read his concurring opinion from the bench, underlining his view on the matter.
43% : There are examples of schools where discontinuation of affirmative action has not had a dramatic impact.
42% : One prospective Ivy League student, Alex Shieh, welcomed the ruling against affirmative action on Thursday, telling ABC News anchor David Muir: "I think that by getting rid of affirmative action, now we look at the individual student and what they've accomplished, and we can look at what barriers they've overcome, but we view them as an individual first and foremost as opposed to just viewing them as a blob in an amorphous, larger racial group."
35% : Nine states had already banned affirmative action in public university admissions and the admissions rates for Black and Hispanic students subsequently plunged in some places.

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