In 1978, the Supreme Court allowed colleges to take race into account when crafting their incoming classes. Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, that’s what many schools did: to get a diverse incoming class, universities used race as one factor among many.
But some schools get a lot of applicants — tens of thousands of students applying for just a few thousand spots. How do you complete an individualized review of so many people? How do you make sure you consider race consistently across those tens of thousands? Is there a way to streamline the process while still ...