A slight majority of polled white adults believe the ruling will have “no difference” on campus diversity, while 57 percent of Asian adults, 49 percent of Black adults and 36 percent of Hispanic adults believe the impact will be “Much/Slightly less diverse” college campuses.

The Gallup poll was conducted Oct. 25 – Nov. 9.
According to Gallup, the typical sample size for their poll is 1,000 national adults reached via landline with a margin of error of ±4 percentage points.

In June 2023, the Supreme Court
dealt a major blow to affirmative action in higher education after it struck down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The ruling was divided along ideological lines, as the high court’s six-justice conservative majority found that the universities discriminated against white and Asian American applicants by using race-conscious policies that benefited applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

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Gallup polls found that around 70 percent of Americans had consistently supported deciding admissions solely on merit rather than factoring in a student’s race or ethnicity.