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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What disgusts me is the blatant thumbing if they’re noses at the Supreme Court ruling.  These essay questions are designed specifically to keep using race as a means to boost admission.  I suspect more lawsuits[/quote]

+ a million.

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Point to the text of the SC judgment that you think they are flaunting.  They are literally following the directive of the SC justices.  This is exactly what they suggested schools should do to consider diversity in their application process.[/quote]
NP. My guess is that they are referring to the opinion stating "[/[/b]b]But, despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today. (A dissenting opinion is generally not the best source of legal advice on how to comply with the majority opinion.) “[W]hat cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly."[b][b]

Elsewhere: "At the same time, nothing prohibits universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected the applicant’s life, so long as that discussion is concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability that the particular applicant can contribute to the university. Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin. This Nation’s constitutional history does not tolerate that choice."

The phrase "concretely tied to a quality of character or unique ability" is what I would focus on if I were a URM applicant writing an essay.[/quote]

Yes. And these schools are teetering very closely on the edge of still using race based admissions.[/quote]

How so?  I see their prompts as aligned just fine with the SC guidance.[/quote]

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