"There's a real risk that the incoming classes will look different," agreed Cara McClellan, director of the Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic and practice associate professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
"Without considering race, there would be a reduction in the number of underrepresented students of color."Studies show the effect on college and universities' ability to maintain racial and ethnic diversity would likely be immediate. After the University of California eliminated affirmative action in 1996, the share of underrepresented groups fell 12% and when Michigan banned race-conscious admissions, Black undergraduate enrollment at the school dropped nearly by half from 2006 to 2021, according to the"This idea, essentially striking down affirmative action, on its surface will result in less diverse classes," said Robert Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review.
Colleges can still consider personal essays about "how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration or otherwise,", even though "universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today." "The ruling does allow for students to express, through their essay or otherwise, things about themselves that could include race," Franek also noted.
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