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Reasoning: The Law School provides an individual, holistic review of each of its applicants and reasons that alternative methods of achieving the Law School’s purpose risk sacrificing both academic excellence and other types of diversity in the school. However, the Law School should cease racial consideration in its admissions policies after instances of past discrimination have been sufficiently remedied. | Reasoning: The Law School provides an individual, holistic review of each of its applicants and reasons that alternative methods of achieving the Law School’s purpose risk sacrificing both academic excellence and other types of diversity in the school. However, the Law School should cease racial consideration in its admissions policies after instances of past discrimination have been sufficiently remedied. | ||
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Facts: Gratz and Hamacher were both white people that applied for admission in to the University of Michigan’s undergrad program. Both were denied admission and filed suit in federal district court against a university administrator, seeking to challenge the university’s admission policy on the grounds that it violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. The challenged policy ranked applicants on a 150 point scale that accorded different points to factor such as grade, tests, and achievements. However, an applicant automatically received twenty bonus points for being an underrepresented minority. D | Facts: Gratz and Hamacher were both white people that applied for admission in to the University of Michigan’s undergrad program. Both were denied admission and filed suit in federal district court against a university administrator, seeking to challenge the university’s admission policy on the grounds that it violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. The challenged policy ranked applicants on a 150 point scale that accorded different points to factor such as grade, tests, and achievements. However, an applicant automatically received twenty bonus points for being an underrepresented minority. D | ||
Rule: A university’s admissions policy that automatically gives preference to minority students on the basis of race, without additional individualized consideration, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. | Rule: A university’s admissions policy that automatically gives preference to minority students on the basis of race, without additional individualized consideration, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. | ||
Reasoning: The university’s use of race as justification for automatically assigning twenty points to each minority applicant is not narrowly-tailored to achieve its purpose of promoting student body diversity. Under this system, applicants are not afforded individualized review and the extra twenty points virtually guarantee admission to any minimally qualified minority applicant. | Reasoning: The university’s use of race as justification for automatically assigning twenty points to each minority applicant is not narrowly-tailored to achieve its purpose of promoting student body diversity. Under this system, applicants are not afforded individualized review and the extra twenty points virtually guarantee admission to any minimally qualified minority applicant. | ||
====== Fisher v. University of TX at Austin ====== | ====== Fisher v. University of TX at Austin ====== | ||
