The Supreme Court's decision in June 2023 to reject race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities around the nation upended decades of law and the higher education landscape. The ruling will shift the makeup of many of America's top universities as well as the prospects of students who want to attend them. Both cases Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, No. 20-1199, and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, No. 21-707 were brought by Students for Fair Admissions, a group founded by Edward BlumLinks to an external site., a legal activist who has organized many lawsuits challenging race-conscious admissions policies and voting rights laws, several of which have reached the Supreme Court.

What should schools prioritize during the admissions process? How can the process become more inclusive, equitable and fair now that race-conscious admissions is no longer legal?