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The case boils down to a White girl who decided to sue The University of Texas at Austin because they didn’t let her in, but minority students with test scores and grades lower than hers were admitted. Apparently this pissed off the student, Abigail Fisher, and another woman who dropped out of the suit, so much that they’ve brought it all the way to the Supreme Court. Despite Fisher being a graduating senior at another university, she’s determined to bring UT Austin down a notch. Though between the 2003 ruling and Fisher’s 2007 application, minority students increased by only about 5%, she is convinced of the bias. In reality, UT Austin, along with most other universities, only takes race into account when admitting students rather than using it as a basis for admission. The lawsuit seeks to ban affirmative action altogether. If that happens, universities will no longer be able to even consider race. It becomes nothing in terms of admission.
Read more at Persephone Magazine.
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Ok, Abigail Fisher, sit down. Non-Hispanic Whites make up roughly 45.3% of the population in Texas, and 50.4% of the...
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