Supreme Court·Affirmative action

Complaint says 30 top colleges sidestep the Supreme Court's affirmative-action ruling through a race-screened recruiting pool

Published 4:58 PM CT, Thursday, November 12, 2026 · Updated 5:16 PM CT
In the 5 PM CT update

The Equal Protection Project filed a complaint Thursday with the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division accusing the 30 member schools of the IRT Consortium, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Columbia, of violating Title VI by recruiting from a "racially discriminatory pre-screened pool," the New York Post reported. The group cited IRT data that over 90% of its 2026 cohort identify as people of color and pointed to the Supreme Court's 2023 Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ruling against race-based admissions; the Post said it contacted the schools for comment.

• Affirmative action
• Supreme Court
• Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
• Equal Protection Project
• IRT Consortium
• Title VI
• Justice Department
• Harvard University
• Yale University
• Higher education