Last year, in anticipation of two Supreme Court cases challenging the use of race as a factor in college admissions, the New York Times ran a story on public opinion of affirmative action.
When it comes to skepticism of affirmative-action policies, the issue isn’t whether today’s college students are “left-wing activists who aren’t in touch with the real world” but rather whether that description better applies to New York Times journalists and other liberal elites.
If, as many who follow this issue expect, the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiffs in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard and the companion case, SFFA v. University of North Carolina, it will not only strike a blow for constitutional color blindness but also align with public opinion as expressed in polling and at the ballot box.
Harvard and the University of North Carolina are now hoping that the justices will let them continue using racial double standards in determining which applicants to admit, but with a 6–3 conservative majority now on the Court, history is less likely to repeat itself.
But Duke also admits black students with academic credentials far below those of the average freshman, and it was this latter group that drove the racial gap in attrition rates.
According to Sander and Taylor, the number of UC black and Hispanic freshmen who went on to graduate in four years rose 55 percent; the number graduating with degrees in the more difficult fields of science, technology, math, and engineering rose by 51 percent; and the number who graduated with GPAs of 3.5 or higher rose by 63 percent.
https://www.city-journal.org/affirmative-action-unpopular-polarizing-and-ineffective
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