Supreme Court rules colleges must stop considering for admissions, upending affirmative action

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JUST IN: Supreme Court rules that colleges must stop considering the race of applicants for admission

Blum formed Students for Fair Admissions, which filed the lawsuits against both schools in 2014.

Colleges and universities can use other, race-neutral ways to assemble a diverse student body, including by focusing on socioeconomic status and eliminating the preference for children of alumni and major donors, Students for Fair Admissions argues. The schools contend that they use race in a limited way, but that eliminating it as a factor altogether would make it much harder to achieve a student body that looks like America.

UNC says its freshman class is about 65% white, 22% Asian American, 10% Black and 10% Hispanic. The numbers add to more than 100% because some students report belonging to more than one category, a school spokesman said.

 

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