How Cornell Could Revamp Admissions After the Supreme Court Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling this summer against race-conscious admissions left the higher education world with many questions about how the decision would affect cornerstone practices. For one, what would admissions look like at highly selective institutions? While these institutions account for just a small contingent of colleges, they are some of the few that had factored race into admissions. And they graduate students who often go on to work in the highest reaches of government and industry. Answers are starting to emerge. At Cornell University, an internal task force last month issued a 40-page report with recommendations for how the Ivy League institution can alter its admissions work to help diversify its undergraduate population.