Since the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to end affirmative action, Black first-year enrollment at many of the country’s most selective colleges and universities has dropped significantly, according to a recent analysis led by Collin Binkley of the Associated Press.
Some Ivy League institutions have experienced particularly steep declines in Black first-year enrollment. At Columbia University, Black students represented 20 percent of the 2023 first-year class. By 2025, their share dropped to 13 percent. Over the same time period, Black first-year enrollment dropped from 18 percent to 11.5 percent at Harvard and from 9 percent to 5 percent at Princeton – the smallest share of Black first-year students at the New Jersey-based university in nearly 60 years.
At the country’s two highest-rated liberal arts colleges, Williams College and Amherst College in Massachusetts, Black first-year enrollment has also declined significantly over the past two years. At Amherst, Black first-year enrollment dropped from 11 percent in 2023 to 6 percent in 2025, while Williams’ Black first-year enrollment dropped from 6.84 percent to 4.79 percent.
The California Institute of Technology has experienced one of the most notable recent declines in Black first-year enrollment. In 2023, Black students represented some 5 percent of Caltech’s first-year class. This fall, they represent only 1.6 percent.
Among the 20 schools analyzed in the report, only Smith College in Massachusetts experienced an increase in its Black first-year enrollment, rising from 4.62 percent to 6.8 percent over the past two years. One school, Tulane University in Louisiana, experienced no change in Black first-year enrollment, remaining around 5 percent since 2023.
Who cares! The so-called native born Black American community should stop trying to seek this mythical White validation by aspiring to attend these White racist institutions. So-called Black America needs to realize that simply because you attend or have a degree from these so-called White elite institutions it does not mean truly educated. In fact, it simply means that YOU have been thoroughly programmed and miseducated in the dysfunctional and fragmented mores of White America. As a result, you’re of NO use for the collective native born Black American community.