[NYP] Harvard’s student body is becoming more and more Asian in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision making race-based affirmative action illegal.The most recent class to graduate this past spring was 27.6% Asian. The newly admitted class of 2030 has reached a record high of 43.2% Asian students.
The shift represents justice for Asian students and families who, until the Supreme Court overturned race-based affirmative action in 2023, had been unfairly shut out of elite institutions because they didn’t represent the "right" kind of diversity.
For years, in the name of "racial justice," America’s premier colleges and universities discriminated against certain teenagers racially. But now meritocracy is on the rebound in academia.
The court found that Harvard’s admissions process violated the civil rights of students, especially Asian-American students. In particular, it was alleged that admissions officers systematically rated Asian students lower on subjective personality-based metrics when compared with other groups.
"The Supreme Court opinion in Students for Fair Admissions ended an unconstitutional and polarizing factor in our public lives," Blum told The Post. "There’s a lot of gratitude [from Asian American families]. I’ve received probably two dozen emails [in the past day] about these new numbers from Harvard."