The Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) sent letters Tuesday to Yale, Princeton and Duke questioning the universities’ compliance with the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action and threatening litigation.
The letters said SFFA is “gravely concerned that these schools are not complying” with the June 2023 landmark Supreme Court case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, in which the Court ruled race-based admission practices to be unconstitutional. Suspicions were raised by many over the admissions policies of the elite universities after the student demographics for the class of 2028 revealed little change compared to the previous year when the schools followed affirmative action policies.
Duke in particular reported a 6% decrease in Asian enrollment this academic year compared to last year despite “explicitly [giving] racial preferences to African Americans and Hispanics” in 2023. Yale likewise reported a 6% decrease and Princeton a 2.2 percentage % decrease with the demographic.
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“You told the Supreme Court that, without explicit racial preferences, it would be impossible to ‘obtain the diverse student body’ that you obtained in the past,” SFFA wrote in its letter to Duke. “[B]ased on SFFA’s extensive experience, your racial numbers are not possible under true race neutrality.”
In its 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court sided with SFFA’s argument that the use of racial preferences in college admissions violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and penalized Asian American applicants.
“Please explain this discrepancy, including any new, substantial race-neutral alternatives that you adopted in response to Harvard,” SFFA concluded in each of the letters. “Without that information, SFFA will conclude that you are circumventing the Supreme Court’s decision. SFFA is prepared to enforce Harvard against you through litigation. You are now on notice. Preserve all potentially relevant documents and communications.” […]
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