How are universities answering a Supreme Court ruling on their admissions?

The court said elite schools may not use race as a factor.

The schools say that will make diversity harder, but they still want to achieve it.

I'm Layla Faudel, that's Stephen Skieb and this is up first from NPR News.

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We have some preliminary answers to how a Supreme Court ruling affects university admissions.

Yeah, the court majority rejected elaborate policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

Both elite schools considered race as one factor to decide on which students get in.

The ruling says that violates the Constitution requirement for equal treatment regardless of race.

Decentre said the Constitution promises equality and it was all right for schools to act on that promise.

NPR's Alyssa Nadwarni is here. Good morning.

Good morning. First, how did the court explain its ruling?

So chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion and he said however well intentioned

the policies at UNC and Harvard were, they failed to use race within the narrow confines of what

the Constitution allows. He did leave the door open, writing that schools could consider an

application's discussion of how race affected his or her life. I talked about this with Sarah

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