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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens on applications?  Do they just stop asking race?[/quote]

It will still be on applications because the federal government requires it under Title VI. This will not change if the Supreme Court overturns affirmative action in college admissions. For example, CA and TX don't consider race in admissions but must collect the information via applications and later during enrollment if accepted. [/quote]

So race cannot be checked off on the application but talking about race or being discriminated against can still be mentioned in essays and can certainly be considered as a positive in the context of character development - overcoming adversity and confronting a challenge. If the Supreme Court holds that diversity is not a compelling interest in college admissions and that race cannot be a factor, however small, it cannot be considered. If that happens, hopefully colleges and universities will eliminate geographic diversity and eliminate the huge preference provided to athletes, legacies, and children of donors and faculty.[/quote]

Your logic fails.  Many people from many races and walks of life can face adversity and challenges.  Race based adversity is only one example of adversity.  There are white males who have faced adversity and they can write about the challenges that they faced and how they overcame them.  It will then be up to the subjective process of reviewing those application essays for the AO to determine which candidates will help achieve whatever balanced community the institution is looking for.  What the ruling states is not that race cannot be included in the application process, but that race cannot be used as a metric for determining the placement of individuals.  So, someone who faced adversity and overcame it, even if the adversity was race-based, is being compared to other students who faced other forms of adversity.  That's valid as long as they are not solely basing the decision on the individuals race and also not placing a higher priority or emphasis on facing racial adversity over other types of diversity.[/quote]

No one will ever know if an AO gives more weight to overcoming racial discrimination than other types of adversity, so there will be no way to successfully sue them if they do.  We all know the admissions process can be highly subjective. [/quote]

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