"Race" in College Applications FAQ & Discussion 12

[Mwfan1921]

@parentologist

Assuming that the Supreme Court bans consideration of race, which I believe is likely to be the outcome, highly selective public colleges might move to the model of automatically accepting the top 5% of GPA for every high school in the state to fill some large percentage of the seats,

Most high schools don’t rank anymore, and I don’t see that changing. Nor do I see some large move away from holistic admissions.

@parentologist

I don’t know what the highly selective private colleges might do. Even if they give preference according to economic status (which can be very difficult to accurately determine, given the large off-the-books economy in the US), there are so many very high achieving first generation immigrant kids whose families are not well off, along with non-first gen kids who come from poor families who are not URM yet have very high application stats.

This isn’t so tricky for the colleges that are working with orgs like Questbridge, Posse, Chicago Scholars and the many CBOs out there. So, perhaps these organizations will expand and increase their reach…current college partners will take more students thru these orgs (where the students are vetted and EFC known) and the orgs will partner with more schools.

Colleges are also facile in using race and/or income proxies as well.