Who Benefits from Affirmative Action in College Admissions? Not Who You Think.

Kyra Tyler used to work as an admission official at Brandeis University, a private college in Waltham with a long social justice streak, advocating behind closed doors for underrepresented students of color. After all, she had been hired in the early 2000s specifically to recruit them. But if recruiting students was one challenge, admitting them was another.