Date: March 29th, 2024 5:53 AM
Author: Pale multi-billionaire
https://www.inquirer.com/education/upenn-admissions-race-ivy-league-supreme-court-20240328.html
The University of Pennsylvania announced Thursday night that it had admitted next year’s freshman class from among more than 65,000 applications, but did not offer a racial breakdown of those accepted.
That mirrored actions at other highly selective colleges including Dartmouth, Duke and Princeton, which also did not release demographic information. This year’s class is the first to be accepted following the June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to ban race-conscious admissions.
Penn also did not reveal the number of students it accepted, making it impossible to calculate the percentage of applicants who were successful — a move it started in recent years to downplay its selectivity.
It was the most applications Penn had ever received, up from more than 59,000 last year. That increase came despite last fall’s turmoil on campus over the university’s handling of the Palestine Writes Literary Festival and complaints that the school wasn’t properly protecting both Jewish and Palestinian students and faculty and their advocates following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent military response in Gaza. Former Penn president Liz Magill resigned in December, following a backlash to her congressional committee testimony over the handling of antisemitism on campus.
Under federal law, colleges eventually must report the racial makeup of their classes, and that’s when a comprehensive look at colleges’ admitted classes will be possible, allowing a comparison with the current year’s class, which was selected before the court decision.
At Penn, 9.9% of this year’s 2,416 freshmen identified as Black, 12.4% Hispanic, 13.5% international, 24% white, 29.7% Asian and 5.2% two or more races, according to figures on the university’s website.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5510668&forum_id=2#47536063)