Yale Reportedly Making Adjustments After SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action
“I think it’s going to be a challenge. But I think we are up for the challenge in the Yale Admissions Office.”
It’s good to know that they’re trying to do the right thing. Just kidding. They’re trying to work around it.
Yale changes admissions to comply with SCOTUS ruling. 👏👏👏https://t.co/M0ux16K4jS
— Yiatin Chu (@ycinnewyork) September 9, 2023
The Yale Daily News reports:
University announces policy changes following SCOTUS affirmative action ruling
In a Thursday afternoon email, Dean of Yale College Pericles Lewis and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid Jeremiah Quinlan offered the Yale community an update about the University’s efforts to promote campus diversity since the Supreme Court’s June ruling against race-conscious admissions.
According to the message, the University has been taking steps to continue attracting students from underrepresented backgrounds and promoting a culture of diversity and inclusivity while complying with the law. Per the email, these steps include updates to Yale’s undergraduate admissions process, an expanded admissions outreach plan, new talent pipelines and a commitment to supporting a culture of belonging.
“The most important message I want people to hear is that even if the law has changed, our values have not,” Quinlan told the News. “We still want to be attracting students from underrepresented backgrounds to Yale, even if the law around how we consider them in the process has changed.”
The email opened by announcing the dismissal of a 2021 lawsuit filed against the University by Students for Fair Admissions, or SFFA, the plaintiff in the cases against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. SFFA decided to dismiss the lawsuit, the message explained, after learning of the changes the University has made to comply with the SCOTUS ruling.
Among these changes are several updates to Yale College’s admissions process, including “extensive” new training for admissions officers on how to evaluate applications without access to a student’s self-identified race.
“[The new training] is going to be a significant undertaking for a very experienced staff like that at Yale,” Quinlan told the News. “I think it’s going to be a challenge. But I think we are up for the challenge in the Yale Admissions Office.”
But how can I possibly evaluate an application without knowing the applicant’s race? pic.twitter.com/bJlUnFtkEf
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Liberla Playbook: Never obey the law always find out what you can do to get around it.
“Extensive new training”
Here are all the code words for race and code questions that we are now using without using race.
“If’s the essay’s written in Ebonics, that’s an Admit.”
SFFA will hopefully examine data closely and, if the racial %ages don’t change a lot next year, file a new lawsuit. Yale is being extremely vague and sounding like they want to circumvent the intent of the SCOTUS ruling. Why should this be a “challenge” for Yale Admissions? Just ignoring race altogether would comply, and that would be a pretty easy change.
If that does happen, paraphrasing one poster from a while ago, make Yale use their affirmative action students handle the case.
“including “extensive” new training for admissions officers on how to evaluate applications without access to a student’s self-identified race.”
Gee, I could do that training in five seconds: “Ignore their race.”
Though I suppose after years of working for the experienced racists in the Yale administration, the “re-education” required might be significant.
Reeducation is easy, can them.
The work around is in plain sight. Remain ignorant of the applicant’s self-identified race, and just take one look at him.
You don’t need race to figure this out….if it’s written in crayon, they’re in. Who needs an Ivy League degree to figure it out?
I suspect the biggest impact of these changes is that Yale, etc. will use zip codes and demographics to try to guess. I won’t be surprised if upper class African Americans will see admissions become more difficult.
it’s all such an ugly mess and it could just be solved by setting high academic standards and admitting students on those alone. It’s amazing how often we see that setting high expectations lifts everyone, especially those who are at a disadvantage.
The ending of highly-facilitated admissions for black middle class kids would be a win. That’s who get most of the affirmative action slots now, and they have no disadvantages and extra advantages along the way. But the way Yale could cheat is to count heavily when students indirectly reveal their race, or their guidance counselor reveals it. We should just look at racial admit %ages to the next class. That will tell a lot.