If the Supreme Court bans the consideration of race in college admissions, enrollment of minority groups at selective colleges will likely stall or decline — even if the schools give more weight to factors such as class, according to a new study.
WASHINGTON — If the U.S. Supreme Court bans the consideration of race in, enrollment of minority groups at selective colleges will likely stall or decline — even if the schools give more weight to factors such as class, a new study found.
Students for Fair Admissions, the group suing Harvard and UNC, argues that class-conscious admissions would allow schools to create a diverse student body and boost disadvantaged students without focusing on race. To increase enrollment of all underrepresented groups on campus without race-conscious admissions, the study said, schools would need to overhaul the entire process.
Many colleges without large scholarship budgets would be limited in their ability to select applicants who can't pay full tuition, which could further erode diversity, said Anthony Carnevale, head of the Georgetown center and lead author of the study.
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