Last June's Supreme Court decision in cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) significantly curtailed colleges' ability to consider race or ethnicity in admissions. However, the ruling left open the possibility that colleges could substitute class-based "affirmative action" for race-based affirmative action to maintain racial diversity, an idea that some have promoted as a fairer alternative.1 After all, Black, Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) students are over-represented among those growing up in lower-income families or who would be the first in their families to graduate from college ("first gen").
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