Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that race could not be used by colleges in admissions decisions, historically Black colleges and universities have seen a surge in enrollment.
At Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, officials say the number of applications they received for first-year students increased from just over 4,900 last year to about 7,500 this year. They accepted nearly 3,500 of those students compared to about 2,000 last year.
The increase at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, the country’s largest HBCU, has been more dramatic. Todd Simmons, an associate vice chancellor at A&T says they received more than 42,000 enrollment applications this year, an increase of 12,000 over last year…