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The striking down of a point system should be important. How else can colleges continue to evaluate and rate candidates without their point systems? As a result they will NOT be able to consider race as a factor IF they continue to use a point system.

This is VERY good news.

The striking down of a point system should be important. How else can colleges continue to evaluate and rate candidates without their point systems? As a result they will NOT be able to consider race as a factor IF they continue to use a point system.

Uh, hate to break this to you but most institutions of higher learning are using "race" as a factor, and will continute to do so. Michigan was just a little too brazen about it with its "point system."

The striking down of a point system should be important. How else can colleges continue to evaluate and rate candidates without their point systems? As a result they will NOT be able to consider race as a factor IF they continue to use a point system.

They can still use a point system. They just can't give points for being a particular color (i.e., black) per se. Clearly, by rigging the numbers, they could have admitted a desired quota of blacks. In fact, this is what they did. They backed into the "20 point" advantage by computing the number of points that would be necessary to insure that the overall racial component at the school would be reflective of the proportions in the overall national population. So, if you want your campus to be 12% black, yor reverse engineer the weighting for race on the the application to accomplish this. SCOTUS ruled correctly that this (obviously, to me) was contrary to The Constitution.