[Hostage]

It will be interesting to see how this applies to private law schools and universities.

Note that the "point system" is struck down and not necessarily the "decision process", i.e. race can still be considered at the graduate and undergraduate level.

In this sense the point system could be considered more fair since it would be theoretically possible to overcome the race point bias with intelligence scores, grades, admission statements and community service. Instead an admissions committee now can just decide whatever composition of ethnicity they want and go from there, and there is nothing stopping this at the undergraduate level.

I am genetically unique having no twin or genetically identical sibling. Does that make me a minority of one?

[bigeasy_70118]

It will be interesting to see how this applies to private law schools and universities.

Today's decision will have no effect on private univeristies.

[kegler4]

I just returned from an admissions seminar at my alma mater, a highly selective, small, private, liberal arts university -- and pretty conservative by higher education standards. They've been trying to increase their "diversity," but not just blacks. They gave some examples of how they made some choices.

One girl who was not quite up to the average in grades or SATs got in at least partly because she's Jewish and the school wants to increase its pool of Jewish students. A guy who also was't quite up to the average (of course not all are up to the average -- that's why it's an average) got in partly because he's from Minnesota and this school doesn't get many people from Minnesota. Is this fair to others who DID have the grades and SATs (in both cases the admissions people were certain the students could do the work)? This is a school that also accepts a large percentage of its legacies.