America's highest judicial body ruled just over two years ago that the use of racial preferences in college admissions was unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court's landmark decision has since resulted in more Asian students being admitted to elite universities while African American enrollment has gone down. 

Some schools saw their back enrollment numbers drop by half

That's according to The Hill, which cited a recent analysis of enrollment numbers among 20 prestigious universities  which was carried out by the Associated Press.

It found that nearly all of the institutions in question saw the share of incoming black students drop, with the figure falling by roughly half at multiple schools.

The most dramatic decline occurred at the California Institute of Technology, where African American enrollment went from 5% to 1.6%.

Meanwhile, the percentage of incoming Asian freshmen went up at 14 of the 16 colleges, rising most dramatically at Columbia University, where it climbed from 30% to 39%.

Left-wing analyst calls racial changes in admission figures "deeply troubling"

Those changes were highlighted by Madison Weiss, who serves as a senior analyst for Higher Education Policy at the left-wing Center for American Progress.

Weiss was quoted as telling The Hill that "[t]he recent decline in Black student enrollment at elite institutions is not [an] accident."

"It reflects the very predictable and deeply troubling consequences of dismantling one of our nation’s most effective tools for equity," she asserted.

"Institutions can and must use every race-neutral tool available to promote diversity and equity," the analyst went on to insist.

Critics say racial preferences in college admissions actually harmed black students

However, the Pacific Legal Foundation pointed to African American commentator and Columbia University professor John McWhorter, who argues that the previous system of racial preferences actually harmed black college students.

McWhorter made that case in his 2021 New York Times bestselling book titled, "Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America."

On WOKE RACISM at St. Olaf College, with very good questions from the audience members.https://t.co/QXxjpkTGiH

— John McWhorter (@JohnHMcWhorter) March 15, 2022

He observed that rhetoric around "affirmative action implies that the choice is somehow between Yale or jail" before noting how "the alternative to 'Yale' is a lower-tier university that might better position the student for success."

As evidence for this, he turned to a 2015 Duke University study which concluded that artificially channeling African American students into the most challenging STEM programs ended up reducing the number of black scientists who ultimately graduated.