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Boston University is one of the latest schools to report trends of decreasing diversity in its first-year class following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to overturn affirmative action. The ...
The event, titled “Dear Future Cardinal: Advocating for Black Student Enrollment,” highlighted the 49.4% decrease in Black enrollment at Stanford from the 2024-25 admission year following the ...
Only 19 students, or 3.4% of the class, were Black — less than half the number that joined the previous cohort. In contrast, Black first-year law student enrollment is up at Yale, Stanford and Duke.
A year after the Supreme Court banned race-based admissions, the law school’s first-year Black student enrollment plummeted — with repercussions way beyond the classroom. Harvard Law School ...
According to Gosselin, a more accurate figure for all students who identify as Black is roughly 8 percent. Amid the dip in Black student enrollment for the class of 2028, Gosselin said the admissions ...
Black students made up 4.8% of enrollment, an increase of 494 to 11,257. The share of Native Americans was up slightly at 0.6% and the number of Pacific Islanders remained roughly the same, 0.2%.
Harvard Law School's 2024 fall enrollment data reveals a significant drop in Black first-year students, the lowest since the 1960s, likely due to the Supreme Court's affirmative action ban.
Harvard Law School is reporting its lowest Black student enrollment since the 1960s just one year after the Supreme Court’s decision to end race-conscious college admissions. Only 19 first-year ...
Harvard and the University of North Carolina is already evident in the declining enrollment numbers of Black students at elite universities. At UNC, the percentage of Black students in the 2024 ...
Black student enrollment at Harvard Law took a nosedive after the Supreme Court ruled against race-based admissions last year. The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major ruling on affirmative ...
Hispanic student enrollment at Harvard Law declined by four percentage points—from 63 students last year, 11 percent of the class, to 39—while the number of white and Asian students grew. The ...
Harvard Law School’s drop in Black enrollment is part of a larger trend affecting other demographics as well. The percentage of Black first-year undergraduate students at Harvard fell from 18 ...