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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No more racial discrimination.[/quote]

I guess we have to wait to see the results after this cycle.  Plenty of schools are interpreting it as they can use the essay to continue doing what they are doing---selecting for race/urm.  I believe that is contrary to the SC ruling.[/quote]

The ruling basically says you can't cherry pick the applicant's race alone out of the essay and base your decision on that. But you can look at what else the kid says about themselves and use that quality. If a kid wants to study civil rights in college because she was inspired by seeing her grandfather's photo at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, it would be discriminatory to say that child cannot write that essay because it may happen to suggest her race, while allowing another child to write that he was inspired to join ROTC and study history when he saw his grandfather's medal from WWII (no disclosure of race). And so on. So much of what shapes children and forms their aspirations comes from their backgrounds, so in many cases the essay cannot be answered without disclosing information related to race, gender, religion, etc. The ruling simply holds that if such a disclosure is suggested or made, race cannot be considered, but the rest of information in the essay can.[/quote]

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