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WHY HOCHUL’S 10 PERCENT PLAN FOR SUNY MAKES SENSE
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Published Jan. 27, 2024, 12:00 p.m. ET
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul presented a bold plan to admit the top 10% of all New
York State students into the SUNY system as a way to equitably diversify its
student body. AP
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As part of her 2024 State of the State address on Jan. 9, Gov. Hochul announced
a plan to offer the top 10% of New York high-school seniors direct admission to
the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
“Access to higher education,” Hochul said, “has the potential to transform the
lives of young New Yorkers and change the trajectory of a student’s life.”
Hochul’s announcement comes on the heels of Students for Fair Admissions v.
President and Fellows of Harvard College, a 2023 US Supreme Court decision that
struck down the use of race-based preferences for blacks, Hispanics, and other
“underrepresented” minorities in college admissions.
Hochul’s announcement was met with skepticism from some advocates of
colorblindness, who suspect the governor’s Top 10 Percent Plan is a backdoor
effort to continue the decades of Affirmative Action that penalized whites and
Asian Americans in the Empire State.
These skeptics point to the demographics of high schools that are considered
“feeders” to the top-ranked SUNY campuses, Binghamton University and Stony Brook
University.
Feeder schools tend to have student bodies that are predominantly white and
Asian, while non-feeder schools are predominantly black and Hispanic.
Under Hochul’s Top 10 Percent Plan, there is a chance that fewer students from
predominantly white and Asian schools will gain admission to Binghamton and
Stony Brook; meanwhile, more students from predominantly black and Hispanic
schools could be admitted than in years past.
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The Hochul plan comes in the wake of national efforts to scrap race-based
admissions to colleges and universities.
But that does not mean advocates of colorblindness should reject Hochul’s plan
outright — at least not in the short run.
The state of Texas’s experience with a percentage plan for college admissions,
the plan after which Hochul’s new policy is modeled, helps to illustrate why.
In 1997, the Texas legislature became the first in the nation to pass a
percentage plan for college admissions.
The plan, House Bill 588, was signed into law by then-Gov. George W. Bush and
guarantees the top 10% of Texas high school seniors automatic admission to any
four-year public college or university in the state.
Texas’s Top 10 Percent Plan was passed shortly after the state invalidated the
use of affirmative action in its public colleges and universities in 1996.
In the following years, acceptance rates for underrepresented minorities
declined at two of the state’s most selective schools – the University of Texas
at Austin (UT) and Texas A&M University in College Station (TAMU).
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The issue of diversifying college enrollment has taken on new urgency in the
wake of the Supreme Court decision to end Affirmative Action last year. AP
In the years since the Texas legislature passed its Top 10 Percent Plan, UT and
TAMU have been unable to recover that lost racial and ethnic diversity.
But the percentage plan has been able to “increase access” in other,
race-neutral ways.
A 2022 analysis by education researchers Daniel Klasik and Kalena Cortes found
the plan furthered the likelihood that high schools from non-suburban (aka
heavily minority) areas of Texas would send students to UT and TAMU, albeit
modestly.
In a similar vein, Texas high schools with no prior pattern of sending students
to UT and TAMU were more likely to do so once the Top 10 Percent Plan was
implemented.
Both are clear wins.
Moreover, Samuel Alito, one of the Court’s most conservative justices, praised
the Texas plan in a dissent in 2016’s Fisher v. The University of Texas at
Austin (which was another Supreme Court challenge to Affirmative Action).
Alito noted, for example, that “African-American and Hispanic students admitted
under the Top Ten Percent Plan receive higher college grades than the
African-American and Hispanic students admitted under the race-conscious
program.” Another win.
5
The University of Texas at Austin experimented with an early “percentage”
program for college admissions — the results showed a modest improvement in
minority admissions. Grindstone Media Grp – stock.adobe.com
5
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito noted the Texas program’s
success in a 2016 Court case around Affirmative Action. REUTERS
Ever since the Supreme Court struck down the use of affirmative action in
college admissions last term, institutions of higher education have been hard at
work devising ways to sidestep the ruling.
Encouraging students to write about their race or ethnicity in application
essays appears to be the most popular workaround.
Percentage plans for college admissions are not perfect.
For instance, because these plans only take a student’s class rank into account,
they ignore the student’s SAT/ACT scores, which can be predictive of how one
will fare in college.
That said, a “Top X Percent Plan” is, in principle, meritocratic.
The same cannot be said for race-based essay prompts and other workarounds.
5
Colleges are trying to find ways to continue admitting students based on race,
including personal essays. EFStock – stock.adobe.com
The fight to reform American higher education clearly remains a work in
progress.
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But for the time being, advocates of colorblindness would be wise to not let
“perfect” be the enemy of “good.”
Renu Mukherjee is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute.
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The Hochul plan comes in the wake of national efforts to scrap race-based
admissions to colleges and universities.
The issue of diversifying college enrollment has taken on new urgency in the
wake of the Supreme Court decision to end Affirmative Action last year. AP
The University of Texas at Austin experimented with an early "percentage"
program for college admissions — the results showed a modest improvement in
minority admissions. Grindstone Media Grp - stock.adobe.com
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito noted the Texas program's
success in a 2016 Court case around Affirmative Action. REUTERS
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