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[quote=Anonymous]Jeff Selingo wrote this in his most recent newsletter re: the end of Affirmative Action:
 
While we wait to see the downstream effects play out over the next year, here are more immediate developments I’m watching for:
 
1. Test optional here to stay? The rapid expansion of test-optional admissions during the pandemic brought more applicants—and more applicants of color—to selective colleges. Plus, when institutions don’t have a test score for every applicant, it’s a piece of evidence those claiming discrimination don’t have at their disposal to use in their case.
 
2. When colleges ‘see’ checkbox data. The Common App will still give students an option to identify as Hispanic, Black, Asian, white, etc. But colleges can have the Common App withhold that information when applications are transmitted to the institution or receive it but mask the data from their admissions teams. The question, as one college official told me earlier this week, is when does the admissions dean look at the data? Do they wait until students commit in May, or do they look weeks earlier during yield season before accepted students have deposited?
 
3. Shifts in recruitment and yield strategies. If colleges know the racial and ethnic makeup of their accepted pool in April—after acceptances have gone out but before deposits are in—admissions deans I talked with recently believe they can still race as a factor in how they yield students. That might include improved financial aid packages, campus visits where colleges fly-in accepted students, and other tactics colleges have long used to make their class.
 
At the other end of the admissions funnel, expect selective colleges to focus more recruiting time and resources on high schools with large proportions of students of color.
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o	The University of Virginia, for instance, announced last month a plan to target 40 high schools in the state that have sent few applications to the flagship campus.
o	But even those approaches might come under fire in some states. After the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced an expansion of free tuition for families making less than $80,000 a year following the Supreme Court decision, some members of the system’s Board of Board of Governors and Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees pushed back, questioning why the university never presented the idea to them before releasing it publicly.

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