Of course it is, just as college admission affirmative action practices are not going away; the administrators are just preparing to hide it
/Dismantle and disguise
Possibly related: Is Academia Rotten to the Core?
It’s all part of a single strategy: these people aren’t quitting, and they aren’t going away. Frankly, I don’t understand why people on any side of the affirmative debate are excited by the upcoming Supreme Court decision that, it’s been widely predicted, will bar affirmative action in admission considerations. In anticipation of that ruling, universities are eliminating application requirements that could provide objective criteria, data that opponents could measure, and prove discrimination against whites and Asians.
Nothing will change until universities are defunded, but because the politicians who could do that are all products of the very system that needs reform, it won’t happen.
For example, this woman will have no problem getting into grad school even after the Supreme Court’s ruling — Harvard, probably: