The Affirmative action was enforced on September 24, 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Affirmative action made it so that even if an ethnic individual did not have the grades or credentials to get into a college, the college would still consider that individual based solely on their race.  on June 29, 2023 that affirmative action was removed and became unenforced.

The semi recent decision to remove this movement is very controversial. Some colleges are choosing to abide by the new development while others like M.I.T are making the decision to transfer on the unbiased side, which is resulting in a drop in Black and Latino students. As more colleges report data ( M.I.T is the only college to report so far) there will be a variety of outcomes, such as drastic drops in biracial students and some may have very mild changes. 

There is a possibility that some colleges will “cheat” and continue to be biased towards biracial students as they want to keep their high diversity levels. Even if the college is unbiased during admissions, it is still possible that teachers could still give “extra credit” to Black, Latino, and Asian students.

Data is still being released on this subject and there are still many questions to be answered. 

Cites –

New York Times 

 history.washington.edu