Race-blind college admissions harm diversity without improving quality, study finds

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"They found that the number of top-ranked applicants who identified as underrepresented minorities (URM) dropped by 62% when removing race as a factor from the school's applicant-ranking algorithm. At the same time, the test scores of top-ranked applicants did not meaningfully increase."

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Race-blind college admissions harm diversity without improving quality, study finds

Critics of affirmative action in higher education have argued that the policy deprives more qualified students of a spot at a university or college.

^{Patricia Waldron (Phys.org)}