An Early Look at Diversity Post–Affirmative Action

It’s been 14 months since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill cases, and until now college leaders and observers have only been able to guess at the ruling’s impact on their campuses’ racial diversity. That impact is finally becoming clearer. Over the past few weeks, a trickle of highly selective colleges have begun releasing demographic data for the Class of 2028, starting with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 21.