What’s the Deal With That Supreme Court Case?

For their fourth annual Bulldog Days Live episode, Hannah and Mark ask four recently admitted students visiting campus to reflect on the factors and forces that affected their college application journey – including things they chose to do and things that were completely out of t ...  Show more

Hannah and Mark discuss the exciting work of the admissions office’s “I-Team” with colleague and director of international admissions, John. The officers review the process of applying to Yale as an international student and share how officers evaluate applications from every cor ...  Show more

First: By ruling against using race expressly for college admissions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority will change how decisions are made everywhere.  Plus: The two Black justices on the bench use their opinions to litigate a fight over the role of race in American soc ...  Show more

Constitutional law expert Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses cases coming up in 2023 at the Supreme Court, from a challenge to President Biden's student loan program, to a possible reckoning for social media companies, to the Navaho Nation's f ...  Show more

The Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard and UNC. The ruling is likely to reshape affirmative action in America. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Miles Bryan, engineered by ...  Show more

In a landmark ruling last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and banned the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

The decision eliminated the most powerful tool for ensuring diversity on America’s college campuses and forced ...