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[quote=Anonymous][quote]What's in question if the parallel "holistic" process apparently designed to bypass that top 10% policy to get in more "diversity"[/quote]

But the holistic review process, which by the way, makes up less than 25% of the incoming students each year (and in the year Abigail Fisher applied, made up 8% of the incoming class) privileges a lot of other things aside from race/diversity. A lot of athletes are admitted under holistic review.  Students in the music school and the school of arts who have outstanding auditions or portfolios but are not the most academically competitive are often admitted through holistic review, and faculty in these departments claim the strength of the performing arts would decrease significantly otherwise.  All out of state students.  Kids at top tier magnet schools who have won national awards, but are only in the top, say 15% due to having a competitive class.

Also, although a PP posted that many non-Asian minorities admitted through holistic review have lower SAT scores, there are also a very high number of athletes who are black who are admitted via "holistic review."  What is the comparison between non-athlete minorities admitted between holistic review and athelete minorities in terms of SAT scores?  Athletics play a pretty oversized role at UT, especially football.

Given the actual raw numbers on the number of blacks and latinos with higher SAT scores and grades than Abigail Fisher (168) who were denied as well as the fact that only two students who were minorities with lower scores (as opposed to the 40 white students), it seems that at least in her case, race was not a factor.[/quote]

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