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In Harvard, SFFA asked if Harvard's admission practices were in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act given possible race-neutral selection processes, while in North Carolina, they asked if a university can reject a race-neutral admission process if they believe they need to protect the diversity of the student body and quality of ...
In September 2023, the SFFA filed a lawsuit challenging the use of race and ethnicity as admissions factors at the United States Military Academy, as the Supreme Court exempted military academies from its ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. In February 2024, the organization's case against West Point Academy for considering race ...
In September 2023, SFFA filed a lawsuit challenging the use of race and ethnicity as admissions factors at the United States Military Academy, as the Supreme Court exempted military academies from its ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. In February 2024 the organization was blocked from appealing a decision to the Supreme Court ...
As the Supreme Court decides the fate of affirmative action, most U.S. adults say the court should allow colleges to consider race as part of the admissions process, yet few believe students ...
Critics also argue that holistic admissions is intended to justify selection that seems otherwise random, [237] or otherwise biased towards wealth and race. [ 238 ] [ 239 ] The weighing of certain personality traits in analyzing a student has also become the subject of debate.
Harvard (2023): The Court ruled that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause. [11] Chief Justice John Roberts in his majority opinion wrote, "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it," [ 12 ] and Justice Clarence Thomas affirmed his "defense of the ...
President and Fellows of Harvard College. Specifically, Harvard University was sued in 2018 for allegedly downgrading Asian-Americans' application scores in order to reduce amount of admission. [12] The United States Justice Department later stated that Harvard did not demonstrate that they did not discriminate during admissions based on race. [13]
A Harvard senior who went viral for her graduation speech criticizing the school's response to pro-Palestine protests shares new details about the lead-up to the moment.