David Bernstein | 10.16.2024 8:57 AM

Following the Supreme Court's decision in SFFA in 2023, barring the use of racial preferences in admissions, admissions patterns at most elite universities followed the pattern one would expect: enrollment of black and Hispanic students declined, and enrollment of Asian-American students increased. Three major exceptions to this pattern are Yale, Princeton, and Duke. At each of these universities, enrollment of black students was basically flat, and enrollment of Asian-American students was actually down. Enrollment of Hispanic students, meanwhile, was flat at Princeton and Duke and actually up at Yale.

In today's New York Times, University of Chicago lawprof Sonja Starr argues that we shouldn't assume that these schools were cheating, and offers 3 alternative explanations:

The first........

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