How is everyone's first reaction not that this is Trump electioneering? I have no idea if there's merit here or not, but the replies below seem to largely fail to acknowledge two facts:
(a) All top schools weigh race and gender. They consider student body diversity important. You can disagree that they should, but it's true.
(b) Bill Barr's DOJ is one of the least trustworthy entities in the USA on this subject this side of the KKK.
This is something that has been pursued by the DOJ for years.
The lawsuit that began this process was in 2014.
Also, allusions to the KKK are just obscene. You can have political views, but shoehorning them in while exhibiting such ignorance about the underlying facts of the case just destroys the quality of the conversation.
(a) All top schools weigh race and gender. They consider student body diversity important. You can disagree that they should, but it's true.
(b) Bill Barr's DOJ is one of the least trustworthy entities in the USA on this subject this side of the KKK.