But now that scotus has struck down affirmative action, diversity is not a compelling interest, they can go back to merit without losing federal funding?
The increase in Latino is a university of California tactic. California gave up on black affirmative action but focused on Latino. California struck down affirmative action in 1995 and again in 2020. And yet affirmative action for Latino is still kosher because 45 percent of the state speaks Spanish as a first or second language
Caltech falls to 22 in Forbes rankings:
MIT is 3.
May have to open an MIT thread:
U.S. News & World Distort has not yet dramatically downgraded Caltech:
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities?_sort=rank&_sortDirection=asc
All the rankings are bogus anyway. Usless News rankings rely heavily on faculty opinions, i.e., academics gratifying each other.
A more general collapse of Caltech :
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/caltech-simplilearn-class-students.html
Although other big name universities are involved with the same codefendant:
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