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[quote=Anonymous]First of all, this is not race-based affirmative action.  Affirmative action is very much alive and well—necessary even, per the Supreme Court— and colleges use it as part of their holistic review.  And affirmative action isn’t going anywhere.  It’s pure fantasy to think that the Harvard lawsuits will reach the Supreme Court, let alone that the Court would use the cases as a means of abolishing race based affirmative action.  Plus, by then, the Court will be 5-4 Dem, because a Dem President  will probably have gotten a pick.  Schools are throughly vetting candidates based on race, economic considerations, and the like already.  But it’s a cumbersome process, especially at big schools.  Si they’ll happily have someone else go the basic sorting for them.  Conservatives should have no problem with the adversity score, as most of them have always said, we’ll, sure, I’m fine with taking economic hardships into consideration so long as race into taken into account.  We’ll see if they were sincere about this or not.  Having said all this, the policy is vulnerable to criticism for not being transparent.  People should be able to see how their score was arrived at with an appeals process, if necessary.  There’s no constitutional hook for making this argument, but Trump’s Education Department is going to be pissed.  [/quote]

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