How Harvard changed since end of affirmative action record breaking Asian admissions

Harvard’s student body is becoming more and more Asian in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision making race-based affirmative action illegal.The most recent class to graduate this past spring was 27.6% Asian.The newly admitted class of 2030 has reached a record high of 43.2% Asian students.The shift represents justice for Asian students and families who, until the Supreme Court overturned race-based affirmative action in 2023, had been unfairly shut out of elite institutions because they didn’t represent the “right” kind of diversity.For years, in the name of “racial justice,” America’s premier colleges and universities discriminated against certain teenagers racially.

But now meritocracy is on the rebound in academia.In June 2023, the Supreme Court voted 6 to 2 to overturn race based affirmative action after legal strategist Edward Blum and his organization, Students for Fair Admissions, sued Harvard University for allegedly discriminatory admissions practices.The court found that Harvard’s admissions process violated the civil rights of students, especially Asian-American students.In particular, it was alleged that admissions officers systematically rated Asian students lower on subjective personality-based metrics when compared with other groups.“The Supreme Court opinion in Students for Fair Admissions ended an unconstitutional and polarizing factor in our public lives,” Blum told The Post.

“There’s a lot of gratitude [from Asian American families].I’ve received probably two dozen emails [in the past day] about these new numbers from Harvard.”Another interesting trend to come out of the class of 2030’s data is the tiny share of students intending to study humanities — representing just 11% of the class, compared with 16% as recently as the class of 2027.The incoming proportion of students studying engineering and natural sciences has held steady in recent years, hovering around 50%, while social sciences like psychology an...