Center for Equal Opportunity published a study detailing alleged race-based discrimination in the admissions process at the University of Maryland, College Park.

"The study suggests the University will have to make substantive changes to its admissions procedures if it is to comply with the Supreme Court rulings in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina, which forbid schools from using race or ethnicity as a factor in admission," the organization said in a release about the study.

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The organization's research is based on data supplied by the university.

Its findings, which were published on Tuesday, included evidence that "African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latinos are admitted with significantly lower undergraduate grade-point averages and SAT scores in the fall freshmen class of 2021 than whites and, again to a lesser extent, Asians."

“Black applicants were more likely to be admitted than any other racial or ethnic group, almost three times as likely as whites," Devon Westhill, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, said in a statement. "But that racial preference does black students no favor as they graduated at the lowest six-year rate of any racial or ethnic group."

The University of Maryland could find its admissions process a target for legal challenges.

Students for Fair Admissions, the anti-affirmative action organization behind the Supreme Court lawsuit to strike down the discriminatory admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in the Southern District of New York against the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point, alleging that its merit-based programs for admitting cadets had been altered to focus on race.

Following the Supreme Court's June decision on college admissions, Darryll J. Pines, the president of the University of Maryland, College Park, called the court decision "disappointing" but clarified that "race has never been the determining factor here at the University of Maryland."

He explained that the university has "26 unique factors that we have considered in undergraduate admissions."

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He added: "It has been said that it's impossible to dismantle centuries of racism without acknowledging and considering race in the decisions we make today."

"We will remain a national leader by encouraging and supporting students of all backgrounds as they apply, enroll, and graduate from the University of Maryland," the university president wrote. "The educational value of campus diversity is one we will not sacrifice."