From the NYT article on this topic(<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/mit-black-latino-enrollment-affirmative-action.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/mit-black-latino-enrol...</a>):<p>“M.I.T. officials took pains to make the point that the enrollment decline in historically underrepresented minority students did not mean that the university had admitted underqualified students in the past.”<p>“Officials said that the change in the composition of the class also had nothing to do with the reinstatement, two years ago, of the SAT as an entrance requirement.”<p>If these two hypotheses are untrue according to MIT officials, just what are they thinking caused the drop?
Totally. MIT admissions now reflect the merit of being born into a family that had the resources to put you into high-quality schooling, sign you up for extracurriculars, and help you study for admissions tests and write the essays. That’s merit, baby!