{"id":2504804,"date":"2025-10-30T13:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/affirmative-action-ban-already-having-huge-impact-at-top-colleges-report\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:30:39","slug":"affirmative-action-ban-already-having-huge-impact-at-top-colleges-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/affirmative-action-ban-already-having-huge-impact-at-top-colleges-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Action Ban Already Having Huge Impact at Top Colleges: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faffirmative-action-ban-already-having-huge-impact-at-top-colleges-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2504804&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh article discusses the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s June 2023 ruling that declared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asian-american-activists-blast-bidens-pandering-anti-racism-order\/\" title=\"Asian-American Activists Blast Biden\u2019s \u2018Pandering\u2019 Anti-Racism Order\">affirmative action policies<\/a> in college admissions unconstitutional. As the ban, enrollment of Black students at elite universities such as harvard, Princeton, Caltech, and MIT has declined, while Asian American enrollment has increased. The article criticizes affirmative action, arguing that it led to the admission of less-qualified Black students over more-qualified Asian and white applicants.It claims that such <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >policies artificially engineered racial diversity<\/a> rather than focusing on merit, resulting in higher dropout rates and academic struggles for minority students admitted under affirmative action.The piece also mocks the idea of forced diversity in professional fields and challenges proponents to rely solely on minority professionals hired through affirmative action.it portrays the Supreme Court decision as a move toward merit-based admissions and criticizes what it sees as left-wing complaints branding the change as racist.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The left-wing Associated Press is whining that a recent Supreme Court ban on affirmative action has reduced black enrollment and increased Asian American enrollment at top universities.<\/p>\n<p>In a landmark June 2023 decision, the high court ruled 6-3 that a decades-long policy that used race as a key criterion in college admissions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-supreme-court-deals-crushing-blow-affirmative-action-college-admissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was unconstitutional<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to affirmative action, the enrollment of lesser-qualified black applicants over more-qualified white and Asian candidates has dramatically spiked over the past 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>This was part of a warped program to artificially reengineer American society through forced racial diversity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How insane did Harvard&rsquo;s affirmative action policies get?<\/p>\n<p>An African American student in the 40th percentile of their academic index is more likely to get it than an Asian student in the 100th percentile.<\/p>\n<p>Black students in the 50th percentile are more likely to get in that&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9vvBuQXA24\">pic.twitter.com\/9vvBuQXA24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1674426520100814848?\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));         expires=\"; expires=\" + date.toUTCString();     }     document.cookie=name + \"=\" + (value || \"\")  + expires + \"; path=\/\"; }  \/\/ Helper function to get a cookie function getVideoCookie(name) {     var nameEQ=name + \"=\";     var ca=document.cookie.split(';');     for(var i=0; i <ca.length; i++) {         var c=ca[i];         while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c=c.substring(1,c.length);         if (c.indexOf(nameEQ)==0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);     }     return null; }  \/\/ Function to determine or retrieve the split test group function assignSplitTestGroup() {     var group=getVideoCookie('splitTestGroup'); 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because God forbid college admissions are based on merit and not on DEI agendas rooted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/civil-rights-icon-calls-white-guilt-liberal-racism-insulting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white guilt<\/a> and emotional blackmail.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On almost all of the campuses, Black students account for a smaller  of new students this fall than in 2023,&rdquo; the AP stated.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At the California Institute of Technology and Bates College, students who identified as Black accounted for only about 2% of freshmen this year,&rdquo; the outlet lamented.<\/p>\n<p>The AP escalated its race-baiting by bloviating: &ldquo;Princeton sophomore Christopher Quire said he was stunned when a recent welcome event for Black freshmen filled just half the room. Last year, it filled up so quickly that they needed to find extra chairs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If this trend continues, in three years this campus will be as Black as it was in the Civil Rights era,&rdquo; Quire howled. &ldquo;It feels like tying our feet together and telling us to restart.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Preston Cooper, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said the trend is simply a reflection of merit-based admissions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t necessarily see that as a good or bad thing, but I see that as just the results of this new admissions regime that colleges are required to operate under,&rdquo; he told the AP.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Americans think that colleges should not be taking into account race when they&rsquo;re making their admissions decisions,&rdquo;&nbsp; Cooper added.<\/p>\n<p>What leftists ignore is that minority students admitted to top universities through affirmative action have alarmingly high dropout rates.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because students admitted based on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-asks-scotus-to-end-race-based-redistricting\/\" title=\"Louisiana Asks SCOTUS To End ...-... Redistricting\">skin color &#038;mdash<\/a>; rather than merit &mdash; often get lower grades and feel overwhelmed by their rigorous course loads.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Affirmative action-induced low grades are a serious problem &mdash; as demonstrated by research over the course of the last decade,&rdquo; according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/courts\/commentary\/how-affirmative-action-colleges-hurts-minority-students#:~:text=The%20harms%20of%20affirmative%20action,racial%20preference%20to%20gain%20admission.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heritage Foundation<\/a> analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For example, in one study of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-on-right-would-trade-tax-cuts-for-ability-to-openly-say-n-word-joy-reid-claims\/\" title=\"People On \u2018Right\u2019 Would Trade Tax Cuts For Ability To Openly Say \u2018N\u2019 Word, Joy Reid Claims\">top law schools<\/a>, more than 50 percent of African-American law students (many of whom had been admitted pursuant to affirmative action policies) were in the bottom 10 percent of their class,&rdquo; research found.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And the dropout rate among African-American students was more than twice that of their white peers (19.3 percent vs. 8.2 percent).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When you get out into the real world, the consequences of affirmative action could be deadly.<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself: Are you willing to use a heart surgeon who got hired to fill a diversity quota?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Are you willing to use a heart surgeon that got hired to fill a diversity quota? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xa50dEXQwy\">pic.twitter.com\/xa50dEXQwy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1694318731726397538?\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If forced diversity is so important, why are there no affirmative-action policies in place for the National Basketball Association or the National Football League?<\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&rsquo;t the NBA recruit short, Korean women who can&rsquo;t jump, since there aren&rsquo;t any of them in the league?<\/p>\n<p>And why doesn&rsquo;t the NFL hire a transgender, blind paraplegic to quarterback a Super Bowl contender? That would be really &ldquo;diverse,&rdquo; right?<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of race-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bombshell-affirmative-action-eo-advances-trumps-colorblind-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affirmative action<\/a> should be forced to use only minority doctors, accountants, and auto mechanics who got their jobs based on affirmative action handouts rather than merit for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it&rsquo;s not enough to talk the talk. 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