MIT: Newest students less diverse due to Supreme Court affirmative action decision

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said Wednesday that its incoming freshman class will be less diverse, pinning the shift on the Supreme Court affirmative action ruling last summer.  

Stu Schmill, dean of admissions at MIT, told MIT News that Black, Hispanic, and/or Native American and Pacific Islander students make up only 16 percent of the class of 2028.  

In recent years, Schmill said around 25 percent of the school’s incoming classes identified as one of those groups.