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It\u2019s college application season, which means that some headlines and kitchen table conversations will be dominated by the odds of getting into a certain school \u2014 particularly, as the Supreme Court\u2019s decision knocking down affirmative action has scrambled the admissions calculus for some colleges this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But for most students headed to college next fall, the affirmative action decision won\u2019t have an impact. That\u2019s because the bulk of college students attend a school that never considered race when evaluating students for admission even before the Supreme Court decision. In fact, most college students are enrolled at a school that doesn\u2019t use selective admissions criteria overall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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About 30% of students attend a selective four-year school, according to an analysis by researchers at the Brookings Institution, a think tank. Just 15% of Black students and 19% of Hispanic and Latino students attend one of these schools. A smaller share of students overall \u2014 just 22% \u2014 attended a school that considered race in admissions, according to Brookings. The bulk of college students attend a school where the admissions rate is at least 70%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In June, the Supreme Court\u2019s conservative majority banned colleges from considering race in admissions. For decades, some of the nation\u2019s most prestigious and well-known colleges used affirmative action as one tool to create more diverse classes. In the wake of the decision, college leaders, policymakers, the media and others have grappled with its implications.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amid that discussion and coverage, the analysis provides some perspective on the impact on students of the decision, said Sarah Reber, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, and one of the authors of the analysis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn certain discourses there is in general an over-emphasis on very selective colleges compared to the distribution of where students actually attend college,\u201d Reber said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The decision still matters<\/h2>\n

Still, Reber said, she doesn\u2019t want to minimize the influence of the court\u2019s decision. For one, the ruling could push colleges that don\u2019t use selective admissions to minimize or curtail race-based recruiting and scholarships. In addition, it is likely to impact the way professional schools enrolling a wide swath of students approach admissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Experts also worry that the Supreme Court decision will help to cement the inequality that already exists in higher education. Even before the ruling, Black, Hispanic and low-income students were more concentrated in schools that don\u2019t use selective admissions and are less likely to have the resources necessary to get students through school and into a decent paying job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the same time, the small slice of schools that tend to confer economic success and power are disproportionately white and wealthy. It\u2019s these schools that are most likely to be impacted by the ruling and where experts worry the share of Black and Hispanic students may decline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cInequality in higher education generally reflects inequality in our society broadly,\u201d said Mark Huelsman, director of policy and advocacy, the Hope Center at Temple University. \u201cMost institutions don\u2019t have extremely high rejection rates and for those institutions it\u2019s important that they are representative of our country,\u201d he said. At the same time, \u201cthe institutions that educate most students need far more resources to do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, while it may only affect a small number of institutions, those institutions clearly have outsized influence on our economy, on our politics, on the decision making that goes into our society,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alumni of a handful of very selective institutions that educate less than one half of one percent of Americans account for more than 10% of Fortune 500 CEOs and a quarter of the U.S. Senate. These colleges are also more likely to confer other types of success; students who attend these schools are three times as likely to work at a prestigious employer and roughly 60% more likely to reach the top 1% by the time they\u2019re 33.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The gap in resources available to these schools and the colleges that educate the bulk of the nation\u2019s students probably has a bigger impact on students\u2019 experience than the affirmative action decision, Reber said. \u201cThat\u2019s a major issue when you\u2019re thinking about equity in higher education,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, policymakers, the media and others are more likely to focus on what\u2019s going on at these colleges rather than take steps to provide more resources to the colleges where most students attend. For example, lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill earlier this week that would ban colleges from giving an admissions advantage to applicants whose parents attended their school.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While conversations surrounding these issues are important, policymakers should take them a step further, Huelsman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is any benefit to the attention being paid to what the court has done to race-conscious admissions it\u2019s that all of the other practices that put the thumb on the scale for primarily wealthier and a much whiter slice of the population are under scrutiny,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would be great to take the next step and think about the lack of resources provided to many other institutions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Addressing would take political will, through, for example, launching a federal-state partnership to make community college free. But it\u2019s been difficult to turn those proposals into reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is something to the fact that most decisionmakers attended schools with a very high rejection rate and may not be as attuned to the resource needs of students attending less well resourced institutions and the institutions themselves,\u201d Huelsman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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