I think she should be admitted on merit alone. Setting different scores based on racial/ethnic background is just plain wrong. One standard for everyone. If 77 is good enough to admit a ANY student to the school, she exceeded the requirement.
That’s how I feel, too. I remember back in the fifties or sixties there was ‘racial profiling’ in the tests.
Gee, wouldn’t that be common sense ? When I was getting ready to go to high school back in the ole country in europe, we took an entrance exam at the school we wanted to go to (better schools had harder exams), and, before the admission date, they’d post the list, and an line on it. Everyone above the line got in. The rest went somewhere else. Very darn simple, and very free market (for a very socialist/former communist) place. Of course, they always accepted another whole classroom full for people with connections, but that’s a whole other story.