That’s the findings included in a forthcoming article, scheduled to be published in Sociology of Education in the next few weeks. It comes amid the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to send a case involving affirmative action back to the lower courts, ultimately making it harder for universities to use race as a factor in admissions.
The 7-1 decision in the case brought by plaintiff Abigail Fisher—a White student who was denied admission to the University of Texas—said that the lower court had to examine whether the university correctly used affirmative action to achieve diversity or whether it could use race-neutral criteria such as family income instead.
