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Absolutely shameful. SCOTUS finally got this one right.

If you truly believe that factoring race into college admissions is absolutely shameful, then you can’t also believe SCOTUS was effective in this decision. As Harvard’s response to the opinion demonstrates, there’s an obvious loophole—colleges are allowed to take into account mentions of a student’s experience of their race in the admissions essay.

Nothing has effectively changed.

If it is so easy to ignore the ruling, why they were there to begin with? Why didn't they settle for what you said previously?

Maybe I’m wrong, but it sounds a lot like you’re asking why they didn’t implement a court decision before the decision was made.

The Ivies thought what they were doing was legal. It no longer is.

No I think he means why didnt they discriminate by race via personal essays on the first place. Presumably its less effective.

I suspect Universities will still prefer some races over others. Its a pretty deeply rooted world view held by people who tend to bemoan the legitimacy of the law.

If SCOTUS’ majority opinion says this particular form of information is okay to use, how is the legitimacy of the law being violated?

Thats not what Im saying. Im saying many dont view the Supreme Court as legitimate and the academia administration crowd has significant overlap with that group.

Because a students race does effect their life experience. The whole point of the essay is to talk about their experience and grit.

Shameful of? The justices who voted against it? Harvard?

Harvard was what I meant. But yeah, also the justices in the dissent.

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