After the Supreme Court put an end to affirmative action in college admissions there was some confusion about what was happening. Some schools, like MIT, reported sizeable drops in the number of Black and Hispanic students while other schools, like Yale, seemed to show almost no change. The fact that some schools seemed to be defying gravity led to accusations they were cheating in some way.
Black students make up about 3 percent of the top tenth of high school students academically, according to data collected by Richard Sander, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has long studied the effects of racial preferences and who is a critic of race-based admissions.
With preferences based on factors like parental income, wealth and level of education, as well as neighborhood poverty and school quality, and strong outreach, the share…
