Despite the end of affirmative action following last year’s supreme court decision, enrollment at both Yale and Princeton dropped for Asian Americans.
Bloomberg reports enrollment dropped to 24% from 30% the previous year at Yale and at Princeton, the class saw a 2% decline among Asian American admits to 24%.
These numbers are significant because this is the first-year colleges admitted students under the Supreme Court ruling that banned race conscious admissions.
According to the Yale Daily News, the White student population in the entering class increased 4% to 46% while the percentage of Black and Native American students remained the same.
The Latinx student population in the class of ’28 increased 1 percent, setting an all-time high on the Ivy League campus.
Information from Harvard has yet to be released.
It was just on Tuesday that 80-20, the outspoken Asian American group that opposed race in college admission predicted that “the % admissions of Asian Americans by elite colleges will roughly DOUBLE from the year when we first sued Harvard in 2014. 80-20 supporters can be immensely proud of this fantastic news.”
They based their prediction on news from MIT that the percent of Asian Americans increased to 47% from 40 the previous year.
Edward Blum of Students for Fair Admission which lead the fight against the use of race in admissions declared “Every student admitted to the class of 2028 at M.I.T. will know that they were accepted only based upon their outstanding academic and extracurricular achievements, not the color of their skin,” he said.
So far no reaction from Blum or S.B. Woo, founder of 80-20, to the latest news from Yale and Princeton.
Forbes indicates that the early numbers so far are mixed. At Amherst College, enrollment of Asian Americans increased to 20%, an increase of 2% while at Washington University, the numbers are unchanged.
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