Federal Lawsuit Filed Over UT Race-based Admissions Policies
A legal group that fights racial preferences in schools filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the University of Texas at Austin, claiming its undergraduate admissions policies violate the Constitution and federal law.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I don’t know much more neutral the top 10% rule can be. The fact that Ms. Fisher doesn’t understand that 12 percent just didn’t make the cut begs the question of whether she was worthy of admission in the first place. If she’s arguing that 10 percent is some how racially biased then I’m sure there’s a more solid case to show that the arbitrary 1200 on the SAT is certainly racially biased. It seems some European Americans, just can’t stand it when they are denied white privilege.
But that’s just my opinion…or is it?
April 28th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Ms. Fisher is not challenging the top ten percent rule. You don’t have to fall into top ten percent to get accepted to UT. However, you are automatically accepted if you do. That is UT’s race neutral admission policy. If you don’t fall into top ten percent, a number of criteria are considered, including race. Ms. Fisher’s case is that she was rejected because she is white and that through Grutter v Bollinger, the university shouldn’t use race preference if race neutral means are increasing diversity.