Here’s a story from the Michigan Daily on how minority admissions have fared so far this year. The opening:
The acceptance rate of underrepresented minorities has plunged since the University was forced to stop using affirmative action in January, according to data provided by the University.
The numbers suggest that the affirmative action ban passed by state voters in November has had a dramatic effect on admissions decisions.
University officials, though, are cautioning against reading too much into the preliminary numbers.
Before the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an injunction delaying the implementation of the affirmative action ban on Dec. 27 of last year, the University had admitted 76 percent of the underrepresented minority applicants it considered.
It only admitted 33 percent of underrepresented minority applicants considered after the University stopped taking an applicant’s race into account – a decline of 43 percent.