The affirmative action ruling has already upended college applications

Teenagers of all backgrounds are reconsidering their shot at getting into competitive colleges. Admissions counselors are rethinking how students should discuss their race in application essays. The Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday that colleges cannot consider race in admissions has left applicants in turmoil, they say. Rachel Stagner, who teaches at the private Templeton Academy in Washington, D.C., said she feels sick when she considers how conversations about college with students will go this fall. Her school is small and majority non-White, she said. She knows many students well and often...