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How is that any different than school itself?  A wealthy family can spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on tutors for school classes to help their kids get good grades, and a wealthy family likely will have easier access to schools with more rigorous curricula.  The fact that one family is able to devote more financial resources to school or the SAT or extracurriculars is not illegal.  It's capitalism.  [b]Relative financial status is not a protected class for purposes of civil rights laws.[/b][/quote]

nope, but relative financial class correlates with race which is a protected class[/quote]

If poor whites have the same lack of access as poor minorities, I'm not sure you can say there is a disparate impact on poor minorities.  [/quote]

you can and they are. They'll argue the relevant comparison is minorities as a whole as a percentage of the applicant pool as a whole. Do you think the UC system is going to pay an attorney to say the system is fine because poor people are equally disadvantaged? How long do you think anyone who signs off on that line of argument would keep their jobs? [/quote]

I don't think the UC system needs to make the argument because the ability to hire a tutor or prepare for the test was not relevant in any way to the Court's ruling.  It is a narrow ruling about whether or not adequate testing centers are being made available for persons with disabilities.  Any contentions about rich people performing better were window dressing to drum up sympathy and were not a basis for the trial court's decision.  [/quote]

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