The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service institution, a response to an executive order by President Donald Trump, according to

The U.S. Naval Academy has changed its admissions policy to no longer consider race, the Trump administration said in a court filing Friday, a shift that comes nearly two years after the Supreme Court rejected the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

In a policy reversal in line with President Donald Trump's views, the U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race as a factor in admissions as the elite military school had long done to raise its enrollment of Black,