Musings on the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision
The Supreme Court's recent ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard outlaws consideration of race in university admissions. The decision overturns years of precedent permitting race to be a factor in a holistic admissions process. The decision inaccurately equates diversity efforts with historic racism against Blacks, and unfortunately promises to further divide the nation concerning the value of diversity.
July 19, 2023 at 10:00 AM
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A well-to-do executive recently lamented in conversation that his Princeton-educated daughter, a partner at a Big Four accounting firm who had received perfect scores on her SATs, had not been admitted into Yale's graduate business school. She wasn't accepted, he said, because of Yale's diversity programs. His daughter's spot, he claimed, had gone to a less qualified, minority applicant.
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