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Of the 20 institutions analyzed by the AP, Harvard University saw the second-largest drop in the percentage of Black freshmen between 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n
Keith Bedford\/The Boston Globe\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n Two years after the Supreme Court ruled to end affirmative action in college admissions, Black student enrollment at highly selective institutions is backsliding. This fall, some colleges reported shrinking Black populations, which in some cases now comprise less than 2\u00a0percent of the student body, the Associated Press reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n The AP analyzed enrollment data from 20 selective colleges and universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Harvard, Princeton, Tulane and Yale Universities. Of the 20, only one, Smith College, enrolled a larger\u00a0percentage of Black first-years this fall (6.8\u00a0percent) than it did in 2023 (4.6\u00a0percent). At Harvard, the\u00a0percentage of Black freshmen fell from 18\u00a0percent in 2023 to 11.5\u00a0percent this fall, and at Princeton, the share dropped from 9\u00a0percent in 2024 to 5\u00a0percent this fall.<\/p>\n \u201cIf this trend continues, in three years this campus will be as Black as it was in the civil rights era,\u201d Christopher Quire, a member of Princeton\u2019s Black Student Union, told the AP. \u201cIt feels like tying our feet together and telling us to restart.\u201d<\/p>\n Columbia and Amherst College also saw sharp drops, with the\u00a0percentage of Black freshmen falling from 20\u00a0percent and 11\u00a0percent in 2023 to 13\u00a0percent and 6\u00a0percent, respectively. At the California Institute of Technology, Black students made up only 1.6\u00a0percent of this fall\u2019s first-year class, down from 5\u00a0percent in 2023. By comparison, Black students account for 14\u00a0percent of American high school graduates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of the 20 institutions analyzed by the AP, Harvard University saw the second-largest drop in the percentage of Black freshmen between 2023 and 2025. Keith Bedford\/The Boston Globe\/Getty Images Two years after the Supreme Court ruled to end affirmative action in college admissions, Black student enrollment at highly selective institutions is backsliding. This fall, some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[706,7038,16349,7881,18132,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-31016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-black","9":"tag-enrollment","10":"tag-institutions","11":"tag-selective","12":"tag-shrinks","13":"tag-student"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}