The United States Supreme Court has ruled against affirmative action, ending the practice meant to help create diversity in college populations.
The court ruled on the case in a 6-3 vote, with the conservative justices ruling in favor of ending the practices and the liberal justices ruling in favor of keeping it.
Now, colleges will no longer be able to take race as a factor when considering prospective students.
The practice was challenged by a conservative advocacy group that asked the justices to reverse the decades-old precedent, which would ban the use of race-conscious admissions policies at universities.
The group argued that the policies discriminated against Asian-American applicants in two cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
In each of the cases, the universities argued that race is one factor among many used in a holistic assessment of a student’s application, not the main focus. They also claimed that their processes adhered to the precedent.
Now with the high court’s ruling, affirmative action will no longer be allowed at the University of North Carolina and Harvard when the colleges decide on student admissions.
It is not yet known how this ruling will affect admissions programs at other schools across the country.
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