Asian enrollment surge at Johns Hopkins sparks debate over admissions equity

The Hopkins shift is unfolding alongside a broader legal offensive testing how far the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban extends.

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The share of Asian American students in Johns Hopkins University’s incoming class has surged by nearly 20 percentage points in two years, accelerating a national debate over who benefits and who loses when elite universities move away from race-conscious admissions.

A campus transformed

Since the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruli…