What You Need to Know About the New Rules for College Admissions

Experts share tips for students in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision that banned affirmative action.

Photographer: Dee Dwyer/Bloomberg
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Shem Haile had just started thinking about his college applications when the Supreme Court banned affirmative action from the admissions process.

For the high school senior from Lawndale, California, the decision — which barred universities from using race as a factor in admissions — felt like a “gut punch.”