Over 100 students gather outside the Supreme Court to support race-conscious college admissions policies, but others say it leads inequality in university admissions.
“I’m running on, maybe, six collective hours of sleep in the past 72 hours,” Shin said. The Korean American college senior was one of hundreds of students and supporters who gathered on Monday outside the Supreme Court, which was hearing arguments on cases that could end the use of race-conscious admissions policies in higher education.
The high court’s decision could usher in a new era for a generation of students that has only known an America where many universities consider race in their admissions processes. For decades, the court has upheld affirmative action in higher education, but with a new conservative majority, these students — and those following them — may need to adjust to a country without it.
An African American studies major, Biggs said he fears less diversity at the university could also spell trouble for his department and other majors tailored around identity. The two cases, filed by Students for Fair Admissions, an anti-affirmative action nonprofit founded by conservative activist Edward Blum, allege that race-conscious admissions policies at American universities disadvantage Asian American students.
Asian Americans as the “model minority” being harmed by affirmative action policies is a myth, Chen said. “Definitely before college admissions, I knew … being Asian or Indian definitely makes it harder for you to get into college,” he said, adding his views were confirmed during a high school Quiz Bowl state championship tournament when he felt that his team, composed of four Asian American students, was held to a higher standard than its opponents, who were Black and Latino students and “weren’t buzzing in at all.
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