Colleges across America see the first signs of a repeat of what happened in California after 1996.
What should be a college’s priority in choosing a student body? Should it be racial balance? Or should the primary focus be finding people who are likely to thrive at the institution regardless of their ethnic heritage?
Defenders of affirmative action insist that there is no trade-off between those objectives, but new demographic data on incoming freshmen at some of the nation’s most selective colleges tell a different story. This year’s entering class is the first to be admitted since the Supreme Court ruled last year in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that race-conscious admissions policies violate the Constitution. Reports so far show a decline in the share of black students entering such top-tier schools as Amherst College, Brown University and MIT.
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.
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