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MIT's first freshman class since affirmative-action ban is less diverse
MIT says intake of some minority groups has fallen from 25% to 16% in one year after a Supreme Court decision.
"What it does not bring, as a consequence of last year's Supreme Court decision," she added, "is the same degree of broad racial and ethnic diversity that the MIT community has worked together to achieve over the past several decades." Asian-Americans are not included in MIT’s category of students “historically under-represented” in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects, which Mr Schmill has previously acknowledged to be a “crude standard”. A prestigious US university has recorded a sharp fall in admissions from "members of historically under-represented racial and ethnic groups,” following a Supreme Court decision to end affirmative action.
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