Heather Mac Donald

Affirmative action was hurting black students

Harvard should stop wailing

Harvard commencement (Photo by Ted Fitzgerald/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Harvard may have a slightly more difficult time poaching black students from Boston College, Miami University of Ohio, or other less elite schools in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision invalidating Harvard’s racial admissions regime. Recruiters from BlackRock and Goldman Sachs may have to suffer the indignity of recruiting their black employees from the University of Connecticut or Rice University, rather than from Stanford and Yale.

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