![]() ![]() In fact, the majority of Black and Hispanic students attend universities that accept more than three-quarters of their applicants. Notice how relatively few Black and Hispanic students attend schools with an admission rate of 20 percent or less. The chart below shows the racial breakdown of college attendance by admission rate for 2021. The current opportunity to bring racial equity to American higher education lies in a collective re-commitment to the quality and success of more accessible institutions. Yes, the decision will likely dramatically reduce the racial diversity of incoming classes at highly selective institutions like Harvard, Stanford and the University of North Carolina.īut because affirmative action only opened a tiny window of access to America’s most elite institutions, the ruling will make little difference for most college students.Įven with affirmative action in place, most students of color did not go to elite colleges, and last week’s ruling does nothing to change that. In the wake of the Supreme Court decision that struck down race-conscious admissions, we should recognize that, in practice, affirmative action mattered a great deal for very few and very little for most. These statistics reveal a simple fact about affirmative action in higher education: It mattered very little for the majority of American college students. It’s not until you reach admission rates of 70 percent to 80 percent that you begin to see the colleges that the majority of students attend.ĥ6 percent of these college students go to a school that admits at least three-quarters of its applicants. Just 6 percent of all college students attend a school with an acceptance rate of 25 percent or less.Įven colleges that admit a quarter to half their applicants are attended by only 10 percent of students. They also represent a tiny share of all college students. These are America’s major four-year colleges, arranged by their admission rates.Īt the very top are the most selective colleges - the schools at the center of the affirmative action debate. University of Wyoming Admit rate: > 95% 9k studentsĩ0% admission rate 80% admission rate 70% admission rate 60% admission rate 50% admission rate 40% admission rate 30% admission rate 20% admission rate 10% admission rate University of Utah Admit rate: 95% 30k students University of Texas, Arlington Admit rate: 93% 30k studentsĬalifornia State University, Sacramento Admit rate: 94% 30k students Utah State University Admit rate: 93% 20k students University of Kansas Admit rate: 93% 20k students Grand Valley State University Admit rate: 92% 20k students West Chester University of Pennsylvania Admit rate: 89% 10k students University of Iowa Admit rate: 86% 20k students University of Arkansas Admit rate: 83% 20k students Kennesaw State University Admit rate: 82% 40k students University of North Carolina, Charlotte Admit rate: 79% 20k students University of Alabama Admit rate: 79% 30k students University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Admit rate: 78% 10k students University of Central Missouri Admit rate: 76% 8k students ![]() University of Delaware Admit rate: 72% 20k students Louisiana State University Admit rate: 71% 30k students Purdue University Admit rate: 69% 40k students Rutgers University, New Brunswick Admit rate: 68% 40k students University of Pittsburgh Admit rate: 67% 20k students University of Massachusetts, Amherst Admit rate: 66% 20k students Texas A & M University, College Station Admit rate: 64% 60k students Pennsylvania State University Admit rate: 55% 70k studentsīrigham Young University Admit rate: 59% 30k studentsĬUNY Queens College Admit rate: 61% 20k students University of Washington, Seattle Campus Admit rate: 54% 40k students University of California, Davis Admit rate: 49% 30k studentsĬlemson University Admit rate: 49% 20k students San Diego State University Admit rate: 38% 30k studentsīinghamton University Admit rate: 44% 10k students University of Florida Admit rate: 30% 30k studentsįlorida State University Admit rate: 37% 30k students ![]() University of Texas, Austin Admit rate: 29% 40k students University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Admit rate: 20% 20k students University of California, Berkeley Admit rate: 14% 30k studentsīoston University Admit rate: 19% 20k students Duke University Admit rate: 6% 7k studentsĪmherst College Admit rate: 9% 2k students ![]()
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