Supreme Court weighs affirmative action case, but most college admissions won't be affected

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The history of affirmative action: Landmark decisions shaped higher education, but the Supreme Court might ban it for goodAnd several organizations, including some that represent colleges, have filed briefs in support of the continued use of race in the admissions process.
51% : Observers in the college admissions space fear the court's conservative majority will strike down affirmative action, setting back efforts to diversify the nation's elite colleges.
50% : Some colleges drop test requirements: Applications pour in because of optional ACT, SAT test scores amid COVID-19Justice Sandra Day O' Connor wrote in her decision that within 25 years affirmative action would no longer be needed.
50% : Affirmative action cases spark heated debate over landmark anti-segregation caseEducation Reform Now, a non-partisan think tank focused on education, found in a recent paper that 100 universities have dropped the use of legacy admissions since 2015, including public institutions like the universities of Florida and Connecticut, but also several highly selective colleges, including Amherst College in Massachusetts and Pomona College in California.
50% : The report also said it would be even more pressing to reexamine the practice should the nation's high court strike down affirmative action.

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