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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The University of Texas characterizes racial and ethnic preference as "marginal" factors in its holistic admissions process, but they are actually determinative factors.

In an amicus brief filed in the Fisher vs. Texas case, UCLA law profession Richard Sander pointed out that racial preferences at the University of Texas are decisive factors:

“For example, among freshmen entering the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 who were admitted outside the top-ten-percent system, the mean SAT score (on a scale of 2400) of Asians was a staggering 467 points and the mean score of whites was 390 points above the mean black score.

In percentile terms, these [b]Asians scored at the 93rd percentile of 2009 SAT takers nationwide, whites at the 89th percentile, Hispanics at the 80th percentile, and blacks at the 52nd percentile[/b].” If racial and ethnic preferences were insignificant factors, the university would not be defending them before the Supreme Court.[/quote]

That's astounding, and scary too. [/quote]

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