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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In Texas 75% of a class is admitted using class rank, eg top 10 percent (now it is less than 10 percent).  The remaining 25% is admitted holistically including a long list of factors.  Race is one of those factors.  Ms Fisher, a double legacy, did not meet the 10 percent threshold.  To me the facts matter.

In addition, test scores are not everything.  I don't think going to a system where test scores are the only factors considered.  People successfully matriculate from colleges without perfect or even high test scores.

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Thanks for bringing it back to this.  This case has bugged me for a while because her standing is so tenuous.  She was not a competitive candidate to UT Austin, period, regardless of her race given aspects of her application.  It was a reach school for her and she did not get in.[/quote]

So you've concluded she was "not a competitive candidate" because she did not meet the top 10% threshold.  But, minority applicants who did exactly as well as she did should be considered competitive specifically because the are not white?  Really? [/quote]

The top 10% policy is a transparent policy that has been on the books for years now, and the year Abigail Fisher applied, in accounted for 92% of the spots for the incoming class. The remaining 8% was admitted under "holistic review."  As far as the rest of the holistic admits, if you look it up:

" Of the 841 students admitted under these criteria, 47 had worse AI/PAI scores (a combination of the holistic measure, grades, and test scores) than Fisher, and 42 of them were white. On the other end, UT rejected 168 black and Latino students with scores equal to or better than Fisher’s."
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/06/fisher_v_university_of_texas_the_supreme_court_might_just_gut_affirmative.html[/url]

So basically, white or not, she was in the middle of the pack for the holistic review admits, and getting into UT under the current admissions criteria was a total crapshoot.[/quote]

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