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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are no objective criteria for admission to these schools which is why I suspect plaintiffs will lose.  If they could actually prove quotas, say that there is a cap on Asians, that would be one thing.  But I highly doubt thats what is going on.  And its not as if Asians are underrepresented compared to their percentage in the general population.  If anything, they are overrepresented.  So the claim comes down to "we are more qualified than people who got in" which isn't going to go anywhere because there is no way to measure who is qualified.  I suspect these schools would prefer original thinkers over kids who have been packaged all their lives and get the grades/scores.  There are several such kids at my daughter's school, and they do very well academically and participate in all the extra-curricular activities their parents have told them will help them get into an Ivy.  There are a bazillion kids like that out there and probably most don't get into the top Ivies.

I guess I resent this sense of entitlement -- my child deserve to be admitted because of her scores and grades and that other child doesn't.  That other child may just be a lot more interesting.[/quote]

Actually the point of the case going to the Supreme Court is not to sue for any individual to be accepted in any institution, but to appeal the decision for the federal government to impose affirmative action quotas on institutions.  Currently the Ivies use a race based quota system that is dictated by the federal government affirmative action program in order to ensure that the class constituency is more balanced race-wise.  Systems that are not dependent upon federal funds, such as the California state university system, do not use the affirmative action quotas and have a more merit-based admission system.  The implication is that affirmative action is allowing the universities to discriminate based on race and that some race groups have higher standards imposed on them in order to qualify.  The case is focused on overturning affirmative action.[/quote]

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