The Effect of Affirmative Action on Admissions

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Pardon me feels like with affirmative action it was a bandaid that allowed you to cover up because we're able to say look, Harvard looks racially representative, everything's okay. But when our school systems have fundamentally failed African Americans or societies fundamentally failed black people then they are already at a big disadvantage. So let's get into what the system actually was that's a to begin with at the end of the gradient level and then we can get a little bit of a gradient level. About half Americans are in favor of that playing some role in admissions but they don't think you should play a decisive role.

Peter Arcidiacono is an economist at Duke University and an expert on affirmative action. Arcidiacono served as an expert witness for Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) in SFFA v. Harvard.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Peter Arcidiacono discuss the role that racial preferences have played in the admissions processes of elite American universities in recent decades; the workarounds that universities are likely to use in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision; and why real progress for less privileged students will require fundamental changes that look beyond the admissions practices of a few elite universities.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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