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... It is a shame that this poor girl was brainwashed by the alt-right into believing she could have gotten into school if it weren't for the minorities who pushed her out. It seems to me like the court saw through her arguments. I'd also like to provide this additional fact buried in all of this:
Who Is Abigail Fisher? Facts About The 2015 Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case
In short, there were 42 other white people who were accepted with scores that were identical or lower than Fisher's, however, she decided to argue that the policy which gave minorities the same possibility it gave to many white applicants was to blame. What's most interesting is that Texas' plan of admission is in itself a move away from affirmative action in that it completely removes dreaded 'quotas' and instead focuses on a number of factor of which race is just 1 that as you can clearly see is not a determinant. Her arguments are more or less a complaint that affirmative action did not work for her specific situation.
Abigail Fisher, with her 3.59 GPA, though impressive, was in the bottom 8% of all people who applied to UT that year. She wasn't guaranteed to get in anymore than the 168 black and latino students who achieved equal or better standing, applied and were denied.
Hopefully, this settles the matter and I am fine with the decision but I doubt this will be the end of it.
[FONT="]In the first Fisher case, the Supreme Court ruled that the lower courts were too deferential to school administrators, requiring the courts to look more closely at evidence rather than accept school administrators’ assurances of their good intentions when considering race. A lower court took another look and stood by its earlier decision, and the case ended up back before the justices, who heard oral arguments Dec. 9, 2015.
[/FONT][FONT="]Texas has a unique admissions program, which first takes approximately the top 10 percent of graduating seniors from each high school in the state. To fill the remaining spots, the system examines students’ applications in what it calls a holistic analysis, considering areas such as race, community service, leadership and family circumstances.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Fisher’s attorneys argued that the implementation of the top 10 percent program is sufficient to increase minority enrollment, so there is no need to take race into account when filling the remaining spots.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Fisher attorney Bert Rein argued in December before the Supreme Court that U.T. needed to prove that the use of race in its admissions process was a “necessary last resort” in pursuing diversity, taking into account reasonably available nonracial alternatives.[/FONT]
... It is a shame that this poor girl was brainwashed by the alt-right into believing she could have gotten into school if it weren't for the minorities who pushed her out. It seems to me like the court saw through her arguments. I'd also like to provide this additional fact buried in all of this:
Who Is Abigail Fisher? Facts About The 2015 Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case
[FONT="]"Although one African-American and four Latino applicants with lower combined academic and personal achievement scores than Ms. Fisher’s were provisionally admitted, so were 42 white applicants whose scores were identical to or lower than hers. Similarly, 168 black and Latino students with academic and personal achievement profiles that were as good as, or better than, Ms. Fisher’s were also denied, according to the university," Elise Boddie, a law professor at Rutgers, wrote in the [/FONT]New York Times[FONT="] this week. [/FONT]
In short, there were 42 other white people who were accepted with scores that were identical or lower than Fisher's, however, she decided to argue that the policy which gave minorities the same possibility it gave to many white applicants was to blame. What's most interesting is that Texas' plan of admission is in itself a move away from affirmative action in that it completely removes dreaded 'quotas' and instead focuses on a number of factor of which race is just 1 that as you can clearly see is not a determinant. Her arguments are more or less a complaint that affirmative action did not work for her specific situation.
Abigail Fisher, with her 3.59 GPA, though impressive, was in the bottom 8% of all people who applied to UT that year. She wasn't guaranteed to get in anymore than the 168 black and latino students who achieved equal or better standing, applied and were denied.
Hopefully, this settles the matter and I am fine with the decision but I doubt this will be the end of it.