Notre Dame reaffirms University’s commitment to legacy admissions after Supreme Court ruling

[Anonymous]

The President is a white Catholic, but he’s one of those “good” Catholics because with a straight face he says he was raised in a Puerto Rican environment and strongly supports women’s “health care.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The President is a white Catholic, but he’s one of those “good” Catholics because with a straight face he says he was raised in a Puerto Rican environment and strongly supports women’s “health care.”

The President, like most Democrats, only wears "Catholic" as a skin suit so that he can demand respect.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This website is infested with protofascist right wing lawyers. My god.

Or lawyers who actually understand practicalities and “current Constitutional law”. Oh wait, you think they are “protofascist right wingers” because you get the few thoughts in your head from Twitter.

So much hypocrisy. Even Scalia, rolling in his grave.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame says it wants to become a great research research university. That takes a lot of $$$, much of it from the federal government. Good luck with that!

Notre Dame just joined the AAU, which basically means it already IS a “great research university.”

Let’s see how long the federal dollars continue to roll in.

[Anonymous]

Years ago, I read a book by Phiilip Jenkins, approximately titled, "Anti-Catholocism: the Last Acceptable Prejudice."

Browsing various threads on this forum, I am reminded that Jenkins' thesis is alive an well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The President is a white Catholic, but he’s one of those “good” Catholics because with a straight face he says he was raised in a Puerto Rican environment and strongly supports women’s “health care.”

The President, like most Democrats, only wears "Catholic" as a skin suit so that he can demand respect.

Vs the conservatives who push their extremist beliefs on everyone else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re setting up the Supreme Court case. Supreme Court scholars, watchers and your dog-walker, all can see that by the same reasoning that minority admissions failed, legacy admissions must also fail. ND challenges this to the Supreme Court and their friends there will carve out a nice exception for them. Mark it.

Catholic schools and organizations are VERY well protected with the current SCOTUS. They can do whatever TF they want to do.

Notre Dame has protection from the highest authority.

You think Jesus will protect a Catholic institution that caters to wealthy white people? You must be the kind of Catholic who has a picture of a blonde blue eyed Jesus on your wall.

SCOTUS - higher than Jesus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame says it wants to become a great research research university. That takes a lot of $$$, much of it from the federal government. Good luck with that!

Notre Dame just joined the AAU, which basically means it already IS a “great research university.”

Let’s see how long the federal dollars continue to roll in.

AAU status will help ND and they have the 12th largest endowment among US universities public or private.

They are free to set their admission standards as they see fit as long as race is not a factor.

USNWR rankings become less and less relevant every year. They are free to choose their business model, yes universities are both educational institutions and businesses, and succeed or fail based on that choice.

ND will be around for a long time to come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Years ago, I read a book by Phiilip Jenkins, approximately titled, "Anti-Catholocism: the Last Acceptable Prejudice."

Browsing various threads on this forum, I am reminded that Jenkins' thesis is alive an well.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame says it wants to become a great research research university. That takes a lot of $$$, much of it from the federal government. Good luck with that!

Notre Dame just joined the AAU, which basically means it already IS a “great research university.”

Let’s see how long the federal dollars continue to roll in.

AAU status will help ND and they have the 12th largest endowment among US universities public or private.

They are free to set their admission standards as they see fit as long as race is not a factor.

USNWR rankings become less and less relevant every year. They are free to choose their business model, yes universities are both educational institutions and businesses, and succeed or fail based on that choice.

ND will be around for a long time to come.

You say this as 35 million people read the rankings every year.

[Anonymous]

People who have no interest in Notre Dame sure like lurking about in this discussion. I’m surprised they don’t have a protest to attend or a chatty French movie to see.

[Anonymous]

I say good for Notre Dame and hope my alma mater does the same. Kids of today are way more qualified to attend than their parents were, and plenty of amazing legacies still get rejected. The whole argument against legacy admissions is a bunch of woke nonsense!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame says it wants to become a great research research university. That takes a lot of $$$, much of it from the federal government. Good luck with that!

Notre Dame just joined the AAU, which basically means it already IS a “great research university.”

Let’s see how long the federal dollars continue to roll in.

AAU status will help ND and they have the 12th largest endowment among US universities public or private.

They are free to set their admission standards as they see fit as long as race is not a factor.

USNWR rankings become less and less relevant every year. They are free to choose their business model, yes universities are both educational institutions and businesses, and succeed or fail based on that choice.

ND will be around for a long time to come.

You say this as 35 million people read the rankings every year.

Yes, the 35 million reads will create ad revenue that benefits USNWR which will mean a new set of rankings each year.

Will those interested in attending ND care if it is ranked 15th, 25th or 50th not really. May a few applicants switch to applying to Georgetown if ND falls to 50th, maybe. The undergraduate experience of being at the school for 4 or 5 years in person is limited by the space available to the school. ND will still get many more undergraduate applications than space available.

Same for Princeton if the are 1st or 21st.
USNWR will keep tweaking their rankings to suit the fad of the day.

If a school like Elon jumps from 89th to 29th because of the change will they get more applicants? Yes they will, so they can be more selective than they are today and perhaps raise rates, but they already get more applications than seats today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say good for Notre Dame and hope my alma mater does the same. Kids of today are way more qualified to attend than their parents were, and plenty of amazing legacies still get rejected. The whole argument against legacy admissions is a bunch of woke nonsense!

You sound smart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re setting up the Supreme Court case. Supreme Court scholars, watchers and your dog-walker, all can see that by the same reasoning that minority admissions failed, legacy admissions must also fail. ND challenges this to the Supreme Court and their friends there will carve out a nice exception for them. Mark it.

Catholic schools and organizations are VERY well protected with the current SCOTUS. They can do whatever TF they want to do.

Notre Dame has protection from the highest authority.

You think Jesus will protect a Catholic institution that caters to wealthy white people? You must be the kind of Catholic who has a picture of a blonde blue eyed Jesus on your wall.

Tell us more about how you know nothing about the current Supreme Court.

People thinking that conservative justices are going to embrace disparate impact theory probably haven't spent much time studying judicial theories. If anyone is curious as to how conservative legal philosophy actually views disparate impact:

https://fedsoc.org/search?term=disparate+impact

If anyone believes a coherent conservative legal philosophy exists and is practiced by this supreme court, you’re mistaken.