Top colleges report fewer Black and Hispanic students in wake of Supreme Court ruling

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Black and Hispanic admissions have fallen at elite universities since the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action, according to a new database that also finds fewer applicants divulging their race.

Conservative analysts say there is already evidence of defiance. They pointed to numbers in the database showing that shares of Asian students fell by 6 percentage points at Yale and Duke this fall, even though the Supreme Court case involved claims of discrimination against Asian American applicants.

“Such drops in Asian-American admissions would not be possible under true race neutrality,” said attorney Lance Izumi, an education policy analyst at the free-market Pacific Research Institute.

Mr. Izumi, a past president of the Board of Governors of the California Community College under Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, predicted that “a second set of lawsuits will likely be necessary” if those numbers do not change.

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