This same scenario has been pointed out at other schools. The left is very unhappy about it, naturally.
The Cornell Daily Sun reports:
Black, Hispanic and Native American First-Year Enrollment at Cornell Drops After Affirmative Action BanBlack, Native American and Hispanic student enrollment dropped markedly between the classes of 2027 and 2028, while the proportion of Asian first-years rose slightly, according to data released by the University on Wednesday. This year’s class of first-years is the first to be admitted after the Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action in higher education last year.Black first-year undergraduate student enrollment saw a decrease from 11.7 percent last year to 7.7 percent. The share of first-years who identify as Hispanic dipped from 16.7 percent to 10.5 percent. Native American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander first-year student enrollment both saw sharp declines. White enrollment decreased less than a percentage point, from 48.5 percent to 47.7 percent.The only racial group in the data to see an increase from last year’s figures were Asian students, with first-year enrollment rising only marginally, from 36.3 percent last year to 36.5 percent.The racial data is based on self-identification. Because students can select multiple categories, the sum of the demographic percentages is above 100 percent.The Class of 2028 saw the lowest summed percentage of reported races. The percentage sum was just 103.5 percent this year, a stark 12.4 percent drop from last year’s value of 115.9 percent. Over the past four years, this figure had not dipped below 113 percent.The number of students whose self-reported race/ethnicity was classified as unknown grew from 183 last year to 314 this year.The released data did not give a specific breakdown of the student enrollment in specific colleges.In an interview with The Sun, Interim President Michael Kotlikoff said that this year’s process of releasing demographic data for Cornell’s first-year students was expedited, as the final figures are typically announced in October.In a University press release, Lisa Nishii, vice provost for undergraduate education and vice provost for enrollment, said that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn race-conscious affirmative action does not undermine Cornell’s founding commitment to diversity.
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