Supreme Court Ends Race-Conscious College Admissions in SFFA v. Harvard/UNC

In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, the Supreme Court (6-3) ended race-conscious admissions programs at colleges and universities on June 29, 2023. Chief Justice Roberts wrote that universities may not consider race as a factor in admissions. Justice Sotomayor's dissent called it a 'tragedy.' In the year following the ruling, Black enrollment fell at several selective universities: MIT's freshman class saw Black enrollment drop from 15% to 5%. The ruling reversed 45 years of precedent established in Regents v. Bakke (1978) and Grutter v. Bollinger (2003).