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No - both of which is [u]legal[/u].  Where in the world do you get that use of race in college admissions is illegal?[/quote]

No. You are wrong. Read what I said carefully. The Supreme Court has said that using race as A FACTOR is legal. [b]Racial Balancing is using race based quotas. That is illegal.[/b] and deliberately scoring Asians low on certain scores to bring their admission rates down so that you can balance your class racially is also illegal. [/quote]

Perfectly legal. And balancing, i.e., making sure all races are more proportionally represented is not a quota.  
You're talking out of the plaintiff's play-book here, and they will lose.  The use of race in the fashion Harvard is doing it to have a balanced class of the type students they want is perfectly legal.  [/quote]

That's nonsense. MAKING SURE THAT A CERTAIN RACE IS [b]proportionally represented[/b] is the very definition of a quota. You cannot racially balance unless you have a quota in mind. Otherwise what does it mean to racially balance? And quotas are illegal. That is very clear. So when you say hey "2% blacks" is too less but "10 percent is ok" and I will shape my class based on that, you are enforcing a quota and the Supreme court has said that is illegal.

If you were not racially balancing your class, one year you would get 2% blacks, one year you would get 10%. Your number would depend on the applicant pool. [/quote]

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