A New Route to Racial Diversity

By PETER SCHMIDT

Texas A&M raises minority enrollments without race-conscious admissions

Text: Key elements of Texas A&M University's effort to enroll more minority students without considering race in admissions decisions

The tour guide seems bent on selling Texas A&M University to her audience -- 26 black and Hispanic students brought here from big-city high schools as part of the college's "Very Important Prospects" campus-visit program. Describing Texas A&M as rich in