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Dive Briefing:
- The 2023-24 school year marks the first full college application cycle since the Supreme Court ruled last year to ban racially-based admissions, and the percentages of Asian, Black, Latino and white students who mentioned at least one racial or ethnic reference in their Common Application essays have declined. A study published in June Through the Common App
- However, overall, there were no significant differences from historical trends in students’ application behaviors (including how they self-identified as racial or ethnic) in the 2023-24 Common App application cycle. This allows students to apply to hundreds of institutions with just one form.
- Common App researchers began studying application trends: The End of Racial Consciousness Admissions June 2023. But they discovered something more meaningful. Shift work During the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting optional testing policies around the 2020 season, change In many universities.
Dive Insight:
A study of national application data on nearly 6 million domestic applicants over the past five years found that the share of high-achieving racial or ethnic minority students applying to elite colleges has steadily and sharply declined since 2019-20 compared to non-minority students.
The Supreme Court's ruling last Saturday overturned racial discrimination-based admissions. Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard and SFFA vs. University of North Carolina Reversing that trend may present additional challenges.
““We can’t say exactly how long it will take for these policy impacts to show up ‘generally’ in our application data because how students, counselors, schools and others react to a policy change is highly contextual,” said Brian Kim, director of data science, research and analytics for the Common App and the study’s lead author. “It could take another year. It could also be less evident because some of the responses to the policy have already happened in part last year and this year.”
that much Decision in 2023 The decision on race-conscious admissions was expected to impact the graduate education pipeline for high school students and how educators and counselors approach the college application process. The decision also pressured K-12 systems to respond to the ruling by increasing support for Black and Latino students.
The end of race-based admissions could result in a 10 percent drop in black and Hispanic enrollment at some higher education institutions, according to an estimate from California State University, Sacramento. 2009 study It follows similar bans on the practice in other states.
What other studies have found Statewide enrollment of racial or ethnic minority students declined slightly after the racial admissions ban, but the decline was greater at institutions with more stringent admissions criteria.
However, there has been a dearth of research on whether the 2023 Supreme Court ruling has had a direct impact on student support and college admissions practices. “M“More research is needed here,” Kim said in an email.