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[quote=Anonymous]I've also wondered if the Fisher v. Texas effect (assuming they strike down affirmative action) may trickle down to private schools.  Clearly, legally private schools will not be covered (no acceptance of federal funds as is the case with private colleges).  But if the Supreme Court sets a new societal norm that, as Chief Justice Roberts likes to say, you can't fight discrimination with more discrimination (which is how he sees preferences based on race), will there be more pressure for independent schools to go to a Socio-economic/class based form of diversity in admissions?  That's easier for the wealthier schools with the bigger endowments, of course, than a system which gives some diversity consideration for race/ethnicity absent any consideration of parental wealth/occupation.

You are expecting a Supreme Court decision a bit ahead of game, no ? And the "trickle down to Private schools would not be the lightening bolt that Brown vs BoE was. Lot's of "ifs" in your proposition , so many I don't think its a valid hypothesis.
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