After Ban on Race-Conscious Admissions, MIT’s Black and Latino Enrollment Plunges
August 30, 2024
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What’s New
The incoming freshman class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the nation’s most selective institutions, will be significantly less racially diverse than in years past, according to data released on Wednesday by the college.
MIT’s dean of admissions, Stuart Schmill, attributed the decline to the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which prohibited colleges that receive federal funding from considering race in admissions.
“Following the SFFA decision, we are unable to use race in the same way, and that change is reflected in the outcome for the Class of 2028. Indeed, we did not solicit race or ethnicity information from applicants this year, so we don’t have data on the applicant pool,” Schmill told MIT News. “But I have no doubt that we left out many well-qualified, well-matched applicants from historically underrepresented backgrounds who in the past we would have admitted — and who would have excelled.”
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