The president said he strongly disagrees with the decision.
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Biden urged colleges to maintain diversity in their student bodies by looking at students’ backgrounds in addition to their grades and test scores. “When a poor kid, maybe the first in their family to go to college, gets the same grades and test scores as a wealthy kid, whose whole family has gone to the most elite colleges in the country and whose path has been a lot easier, well, the kid who faced tougher challenges has demonstrated more grit, more determination, and that should be a factor that colleges should take into account in admissions,” Biden said.
In a pair of rulings, the Republican-appointed majority of the Supreme Court found that colleges cannot use race as a basis for admissions decisions, although it allowed applicants to discuss how race shaped their individual experience.He said he is asking the Department of Education to look for ways to maintain diversity in student bodies and identify policies that enhance diversity and those that likely hurt it ― like “legacy” admissions that give preference to children of alumni.
“What I meant by that is it’s done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history,” Biden said. “It’s gone out of its way to ― I mean, for example, take a look at overruling Roe v. Wade, take a look at the decision today. Take a look at how it’s ruled on a number of issues that have been precedent for 50, 60 years sometimes.”
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