High School Seniors Are Applying to College Without Affirmative Action. We Know How This Will Go.

They say the U.S. looks to California to see its future—and in the case of affirmative action, the Golden State was about 25 years ahead of the Supreme Court. In the early 1990s, the state’s violent and the economy a painful recession—prompting a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment. In response, state Republicans proposed a ballot measure to ban affirmative action at California’s public universities. In 1996, Proposition 209 passed with a... + full article