After the Supreme Court rules against affirmative action, Colorado universities, higher education leaders react

Universities with selective admission policies have used affirmative action to try leveling the playing field a little more. “In a medical school; in particular, in an MD program, our class size is 184 people, and we have in the last several years, consistently had around 10,000 or more applicants for those 184 positions,” said Shanta Zimmer, senior associate dean at CU Anschutz School of Medicine. “So the opportunity to enroll everybody who’s excellent is not there.”