Asian American enrollment up at elite colleges after affirmative action ruling, but unevenly

The wide school-level variance suggests that individual institutions still hold significant discretion over how the ruling reshapes their incoming classes.

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Asian American freshman representation has risen at the nation’s most selective colleges in the first admissions cycle following the Supreme Court’s ban on race-conscious admissions, but the gains are far from uniform across individual elite institutions, according to a new analysis of federal data.

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