Despite the end of affirmative action following last year’s supreme court decision, enrollment at both Yale and Princeton dropped for Asian Americans. Bloomberg reports enrollment dropped to 24% from 30% the previous year at Yale and at Princeton, the class saw a 2% decline among Asian American admits to 24%.
These numbers are significant because this is the first-year colleges admitted students under the Supreme Court ruling that banned race conscious admissions. According to the Yale Daily News, the White student population in the entering class increased 4% to 46% while the percentage of Black and Native American students remained the same.
The Latinx student population in the class of ’28 increased 1 percent, setting an all-time high on the Ivy League campus.
