Yale University has promised to stop using race as a factor in offering admission or financial aid as the school moves to comply with this summer’s Supreme Court ruling.
Not only are admissions officers ordered not to consider race, but also the school said it would take “technological steps” to ensure that the officers don’t have access to race check-box data, nor would the admissions office run any reports on the racial makeup of the incoming class while the process is underway.
The school said it expects the questions will “invite students from all backgrounds” to talk about themselves and their formation. “A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrimination, for example, must be tied to that student’s courage and determination,” the chief justice wrote. “In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race.”
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