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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These discussions are always funny to me because Blacks and Latinos ALWAYS get negatively dragged into them.  As I have said many times, if suits like this by Asian-Americans are successful, it will not be at the expense of Blacks and Latinos.  They are not going to "take seats away" from URM's and give them to Asian American kids.  I cannot see a school taking opportunities from one or two minority groups to give that opportunity to another minority group. The people most at risk (and that might be playing out in some of the opposition) are the White students who would be at the longer end of the range for accepted White students. They would be the proverbial low hanging fruit.  [/quote]

I think you're right *to the extent that universities get to set their own policies.*  But if/when a lawsuit (or, in the case of public systems, a popular referendum) leads to a ruling that admissions must be race-blind, then it will most likely be African Americans and Latinos that lose access to elite schools.  Look at UC Berkeley as an example wrt African American admissions.  The "Asian American" lawsuit against Harvard (actually put together by a white guy at AEI) is asking for such a ruling to be made explicitly wrt private universities.  If such a ruling were to be made, it'd most likely be slightly less categorical (e.g. can only use race-conscious approach if you can prove that no race-blind system could achieve your objective), at which point it becomes a question of how much more time and resources are individual private schools willing to put into attempts to preserve holistic admissions.  And/or how much control they're willing to give up over admissions.  Imagine Harvard using an actual lottery system for admissions (after outreach efforts to increase the percentage of applicants from underrepresented minority groups).  And/or more weight attached to low SES than to grades or scores.  At which point, we'll see how places like Harvard respond -- because then the choice might really be whether a school is willing to sacrifice its alumni donor base to retain its racial diversity.  [/quote]

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