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Winners and Losers: Changes in Texas University Admissions Post-Hopwood

University of Washington

Marta Tienda

Princeton University

This article evaluates changes in racial and ethnic composition of three Texas universities following the ban on affirmative action imposed by the 1996 Hopwood decision. The authors estimate the extent to which universities practiced affirmative action before the ban and evaluate how officers at these universities responded by changing relative weights accorded to various applicant characteristics. After assessing whether changes in the relative weights favored minority applicants, the degree to which these new policies succeeded in maintaining minority shares at their pre-Hopwood levels is simulated. This article finds that these universities complied with the Hopwood ruling such that direct advantages given to Black and Hispanic applicants disappeared (and in some cases became disadvantages). Although there is some evidence that universities changed the weights they placed on applicant characteristics in ways that aided underrepresented minority applicants, these changes were insufficient to restore Black and Hispanic applicants’ share of admitted students.

Key Words: college affirmative action • institutional responses • racial proxy indicators

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 30, No. 3, 255-280 (2008)
DOI: 10.3102/0162373708321384


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