One and a half application cycles after the state of Michigan banned the use of race in admissions, underrepresented minorities at the University of Michigan will make up 10.5 percent of the incoming freshman class, the Michigan Daily
reports. Last year, which was only partially affected by the ban, the number was 10.8 percent, down from the 2006's 12.6 percent. Always looking on the bright side, university officials are "delighted" that this year's decrease was not more drastic.

Princeton University said the Education Department broadened its investigation of possible discrimination against Asian-American applicants.

In 2006, federal officials began investigating a claim from a student that Princeton rejected him because of his race and national origin. The student, 19-year-old Jian Li, initially enrolled at Yale University and is now at Harvard. Princeton says it didn't discriminate against Mr. Li