After Affirmative Action Ends
In this piece, Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk Gersen asks and opines on the question on the legality of “race-neutral” methods that are designed with the continuing goal of producing diverse student bodies.
“One can imagine selective colleges and universities making adjustments to eliminate or lessen the importance of standardized tests… to prioritize applicants from less-well-funded high schools…to favor applicants from geographically underrepresented areas…and to put more weight on discretionary factors such as ‘personal’ qualities…”
The question will be whether these ways around using race explicitly “is any more lawful than the use of race-conscious affirmative action.”
