Last June, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that affirmative action measures, which ensured specific racial proportions among new college students, were unconstitutional.
On Tuesday (Sept.17), the nonprofit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) pointed out a significant decline in the percentage of Asian students admitted this year at Yale University, Princeton University, and Duke University. SFFA alleges these institutions have not complied with the ruling and are covertly suppressing Asian student admissions, threatening to sue the three universities.
According to SFFA, the proportion of Asian freshmen at Duke has dropped from 35% last year to 29% this year. At Yale, this percentage decreased from 30% to 24%, and at Princeton, it went from 26% to 23.8%. In contrast, the proportion of Black freshmen increased slightly at Duke from 12% to 13%, remained steady at 14% at Yale, and decreased marginally from 9% to 8.9% at Princeton.
Following the Supreme Court's decision, colleges in the U.S. are prohibited from viewing the ethnicity selected by applicants on their applications. SFFA stated that while students might discuss experiences of racial discrimination in their application essays, colleges are not allowed to use this information to determine the student's race. SFFA hinted that they would focus on whether the universities are indirectly circumventing the ruling through application essays.
A spokesperson for Princeton University stated on Tuesday that the university has been meticulously adhering to the Supreme Court's guidelines. Yale and Duke have not yet responded.
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