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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The point is that there are blatant rejections from students who have much higher qualifications in favor of other races. [b]This is why the Fisher case is being re-visited by the SC. [/b]You think it's fair to take points off an Asian kid's test score and add points to a Black or Hispanic kid's simply due to race?

My husband said the other day "Oh, good, to women are graduating from Ranger school" My response was 'tell that to the guys that she has to pull off the battlefield". Then I asked him if he really wants a woman firefighter my size to be the one to get him out of a burning building. Crickets. He knows there's no way I could physically do that if he was passed out from smoke inhalation.

Sometimes what seems 'fair' is not at all fair and for multiple good reasons.[/quote]

The Fisher case is a TERRIBLE example.  TERRIBLE.  Fisher didn't make the cut for automatic admission (top 10% of her high school class) and UT filled 92% of its Freshman slots that year with the 10% kids.  She had a mediocre high school GPA and fine but not great SAT scores (1180 out of 1600).

So she was competing for the remaining 8% of the spots, which was insanely competitive.  Of the kids who were accepted to fill that 8%, only 47 had worse scores than Fisher, but 42 of those were white.

Finally, 168 Black and Latino students with better scores than Fisher were also denied that year.

To recap, a mediocre student doesn't manage to get one of the guaranteed spots by doing better in high school, then loses out to a bunch of White kids with worse scores for the remaining spots, but blames race.  [/quote]

PP here that is an active poster on affirmative action threads on dcum.

Fisher is THE WORST plaintiff ever for a scotus case on this matter.

She actively puts the whole anti-affirmative action in college admissions movement in bad light.

Seriously there are tons of way better plaintiffs out there. [/quote]

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