The coming Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action could widen those racial gaps.
is based on the argument that some colleges are discriminating against Asian and white students and giving an unfair advantage to Black and Latino students.
In Mississippi, 48% of high school graduates were Black in 2021 but only 8% of first-year students at Ole Miss, the state’s flagship, were Black. The Supreme Court ruling could also have a big impact on Latino students. The University of Texas at Austin, for example, does consider race in admissions but already has the second biggest gap for Latino students in the country.As Supreme Court considers affirmative action, a former critic of the policy voices regret
The University of California, Berkeley has the biggest gap – 34 percentage points. The state banned affirmative action in 1996.
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