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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would the  Supreme Court’s decision impact HS class of 2024? Or would it be the following year? Can Universities change admissions drastically of decision comes as late as July 2023?[/quote]

I’d expect kids waitlisted this year at schools openly engaging in AA to sue, same with last year and the year before right up to the statute of limitations. [/quote]

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm sure you're not one either. The schools had a previous Supreme Court decision saying what they were doing was kosher. I don't see how a lawsuit could work retroactively. (Help me out, numerous biglaw partners on this board).[/quote]

This case will say that one was wrongly decided. They will say that this was the correct reading all along, so the law has not actually changed [/quote]

This is correct. Precedent will win out. And in the off chance that it does not, private colleges especially have the right to choose whoever the heck they want to choose, as they always have. They have NEVER EVER just chosen on grades and scores. Like -- NEVER. At Harvard in particular, everybody is 4.0, perfect or near perfect SAT. By definition, the choice between one or the other student is going to be in soft skills and other factors. Race can be determined by 100 other indicators that don't look like race. And as much as I hate to say it, if you think a Big 10 school with a major sports program and billionaire boosters and donors is going to be OK with their alma mater being mostly Asian you are nuts. Won't happen.[/quote]

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