Recent affirmative action decision will not impact OSU’s admissions process

The United States Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding affirmative action will not impact the admission process at Oklahoma State University.

On June 29, SCOTUS decided, through a vote of 6-2, that racebased affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional.

Affirmative action, as it was previously upheld, meant that higher education institutions, in this instance Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, could consider race as one factor of many when admitting students.

“Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin,” said Chief Justice John Roberts in the official