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[quote=Anonymous]I think that the ruling might be hard on high-income Black kids, neutral or helpful for low-income kids from all ethnic groups, terrible for white kids with mediocre grades and high SATs (because more schools will stop looking at standardized test scores), and pretty good for Asian kids.

Bright white and Asian kids who plan to major in the humanities and social sciences will want to go to diverse schools. So, that might mean that schools that have slightly lower stats, overall, and that have an easier time admitting high-income Black kids (maybe, say, Rutgers, or the University of Rochester) will end up with more top-tier, top-stats white and Asian humanities and social sciences students, as well as a lot of high-income Black students who are really top-tier students themselves.

So, Harvard will have all the kids with 800 verbal scores that money can buy, but the University of Rochester might get the kids with 750 scores who can hold a conversation.

Right now, that might look bad, because the humanities and social sciences majors are pre-law majors, and law is in the doldrums. But, if law makes a comeback, attracting creative, thoughtful, vibrant humanities and social sciences majors might suddenly become a positive.

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