Colleges and universities across the country are scrambling to find legal means of maintaining the levels of diversity they would like to see. Though barred from actively using race as a factor, they will still “see” race in signifiers such as name, ZIP code and, perhaps most notable, what students say about themselves in their essays. “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration or otherwise,” he wrote. Brenzel is currently a trustee at Morehouse College, where he is helping its board work through how the ruling will affect admissions. These supplemental prompts represent a new kind of diversity essay question, replacing the old kind that relied on a previous Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.

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Persons: John Roberts’s, ”, Roberts, Jeff Brenzel, Brenzel, Biden, Matthew McGann, —, ” McGann Organizations: Yale, Morehouse College, Amherst College, Black Student Union, Ivy League