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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the class of 2022, Harvard University received 42,749 applications. It admitted 1,962 people. The 4.59 percent admissions rate is a record low for the school. The forces against affirmative-action would have you believe that they want those roughly 2,000 spots to go to people based on “merit,” and then define “merit” to only mean a student’s grade point average and standardized test score.

Such an admissions policy would be stupid and those people know it. That’d be like filling out a basketball team with only the five people who jumped the highest and performed the best on a three point shooting skills contest.

No matter what those 4.59 percent, and their parents, want you to think, getting into Harvard or any other top university is not all about “merit” so closely and illogically defined. The 4.59 percent who get are not objectively “smarter” than the other 40,787 applicants. A school with an overabundance of choice is going to look at any number of factors in order to come up with a first year class.

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This should be a point-and-click violation of Bakke. You can easily uphold the principles of affirmative-action, while finding Harvard guilty of imposing a racial quota. It’s really not hard.

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Instead of upholding precedent in Bakke, the Court will likely overturn it. The hard-right majority opinion will probably be written by Clarence Thomas, a man whose entire career has been devoted to pulling the ladder up behind him, then admonishing people who can’t scale the cliff.

It’ll be a bad day for African-Americans, Latinos, and white women — who are actually the primary beneficiaries affirmative-action style policies in the employment context, but don’t seem to know it.

But it won’t be a good day for Asian-Americans. You can’t make a deal with white supremacists and come out ahead. Without Bakke, all of the “race-neutral” ways universities use to neg Asian-American applicants will still be in place. Blum and his cohort will have an important victory over black and brown people. Asian-Americans will still be trying to out-compete all of the other Asian-Americans out there for the limited number of spots not already earmarked for white kids who have the right connections.

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/10/asian-american-aff...nBz1M6Lltx6K-Nn8EErDIJNiw&rf=1[/quote]

That's a long post to state the patently obvious.  [/quote]

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