The Biden administration has unveiled new guidance for college admissions to help institutions navigate the legal constraints put in place by the Supreme Court's decision to restrict race-conscious admissions practices. The guidance encourages colleges to identify and remove potential barriers to higher education for underrepresented students and reexamine admissions preferences that benefit privileged students. It also emphasizes the importance of bolstering student recruitment and retention programs. While the Supreme Court decision has limited the use of race in admissions, the guidance states that colleges can still consider how race has affected an applicant's life and can take into account characteristics that are tied to an applicant's lived experience with race. The administration hopes that the guidance will ensure that colleges know what they are legally able to do to ensure diversity on their campuses. The decision to limit affirmative action has raised questions about how colleges will create diverse student bodies going forward. Some schools have turned to asking applicants about their identity or life experiences in their essays, as this remains one area where discussing race is still explicitly legal. However, colleges also face potential legal challenges in determining which essay prompts are acceptable and which are unconstitutional.