Harvard University became the latest elite school to report a decline in first-year Black students following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively banned colleges from considering race as a factor in admissions.
African American or Black students accounted for 14% of the new class of first-year undergraduates, down from 18% a year earlier, Harvard said in a statement Wednesday. Hispanic or Latino students made up 16%, an increase of 2 percentage points, while the share of Asian American students held steady at 37%.
