The class of 2028 will be comprised of 16% Black, Hispanic, Native American or Pacific Islander students, compared with 25% enrollment among those groups in the years 2024 to 2027.
MIT's incoming freshman class will be far less racially diverse compared to past years, a change the university attributes to last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision banning the use of race in college admissions.
"We expected that this would result in fewer students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups enrolling at MIT. That’s what has happened," he said in the interview. MIT did not collect applicant race or ethnicity information this admissions cycle, Schmill told MIT News, so the diversity of the applicant pool isn't known.
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