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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ post their profile/stats and i can tell you why. that's no rocket science. [/quote]

I just gave you their profile:  The 42 white students ALL had lower scores than Abby Fisher.  You have no problem opining about why non-white students are admitted with lower scores (without knowing anything else about their "profile"  :roll: ).  So please tell me why these white students were admitted with lower scores than Abby.  Why shouldn't she sue over that?  I mean, they did take "her" seat after all.[/quote]

I don't consider your blanket statement their profile. Maybe they were in top 10% of their class even with lower scores. Give me applicant by applicant profile of gender, GPA, test scores, any hooks, % of class, ECs. Now, go get it. You can do it.  :roll: [/quote]

The top 10% were already admitted (that's based on grades, not SAT/ACT scores).  Abby and the 42 white students with lower scores who were admitted did NOT graduate in the 10% of their class.  They were considered in a different pool.

Just as I suspected...you have nothing but excuses for this pathetic lawsuit.  You cannot defend the indefensible.  You and Abby are both mediocre.[/quote]

NP.  Without more information on those 42, who knows why they were admitted.  For example, my DS attends a top SLAC and his roommate went to a magnet high school in TX ranked in the top 30 in the country.  He did not graduate in the top 10% due to the caliber of student that attends the high school but nevertheless has almost a full merit scholarship to the SLAC based on his high school record.[/quote]

NP. That's all well and grand. The lawsuit was that Hispanics and Blacks were admitted with a lower SAT score than Fisher   The implication was and is that is that the only thing those five students offered was the color of their skin. Fisher and her supporters on this thread and others didn't ask or consider the kids schools, grades, ECs, etc.  Their one note argument is that Fisher had a better SAT score therefore one of the five took her seat at UT.  Apparently, 42 White students also had lower SAT scores than Fisher, but you and others give the 42 white students benefit of the doubt that they had something else to offer. Hypocrisy. [/quote]

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