Many use different formulas to calculate racial makeup, and it’s not obvious there’s a “right” way. By Aatish Bhatia Aatish Bhatia and Upshot colleagues have contacted over 90 selective colleges to ...

The class of 2028 is the first group of students admitted to Columbia following the overturning of race-conscious admissions in 2023, marking a significant shift in the University’s admissions ...

When colleges began announcing the makeup of their incoming freshman classes last year—the first admissions cycle since the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action—there seemed to have been some ...

Twenty-five years ago, in an episode of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiam” television series titled “Affirmative Action,” the comedian’s friend Richard Lewis introduces him to Dr. Grambs, a Black ...

After a decades-long struggle to kill affirmative action, one man succeeded by using Asian American students as a wedge, say activists from Harvard and UNC. They see through it — and have fought back ...

President Donald Trump’s assault on what he broadly calls DEI has been slapdash and sadistic. That doesn’t mean the system under attack should be maintained. Racial preferencing in university ...