Asian enrollment at top colleges Princeton, Yale and Duke down admissions group claims discrimination

Asian students are being discriminated against by elite colleges even after the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action unconstitutional, the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) group alleges.Princeton, Yale, and Duke have come under scrutiny as the demographic breakdown of their incoming classes has barely budged despite the ruling, apart from a decline in Asian students, according to data published by the schools.At Duke, the percentage of Asian students dropped from 35% to 29%, according to the New York Times, and at Yale it plummeted from 30% to 24%, their published statistics show.Black and Hispanic student percentages held steady at both.Princeton University’s school newspaper boasted that their incoming class breakdown was “untouched by [the] affirmative action ban.” However, the percentage of Asian student enrolled dropped from 26% to 24%, according to the student publication.“It is likely that universities that did not have a decline in the [percentage] of racial minorities are using a proxy for race [in the admissions process] instead of direct racial classifications and preferences,” Blum, the legal strategist who brought the case that overturned affirmative action before the Supreme Court, alleged to The Post.At other schools, such as MIT, the percentage of Black, Hispanic, Native American and Pacific Islander students in the Class of 2028 dropped to 16%, compared with 25% in the prior year.

Meanwhile the percentage of Asian students climbed from 40% to 47%.SFFA’s successful case brought before the Supreme Court against Harvard University alleged the college systematically discriminated against high-achieving Asian applicants by scoring them lower on a subjective “personality” metric, allegedly in order to increase class diversity.It led to the court ruling in a 6-to-3 vote last June that race-based affirmative action was unconstitutional.“Our experts concluded that the elimination of race would cause a significant decline in the enroll...