We finally got another of those major Supreme Court decisions we’d been promised as a result of the three conservative justices nominated by Trump and confirmed by McConnell. Dodd was the first, overturning Roe v Wade.
Now we have Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard which says race may not be used in admission decisions. The Court combined two cases, one against U. of North Carolina and the other against Harvard. The vote was 6-3 on UNC and 6-2 on Harvard as Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself on the Harvard case as she’d served on its Board of Governors.
Universities will now have to use other measures like socioeconomic status to favor students of color over students of pallor. Most schools are on record as saying they intend to find legal ways to add BIPOC students to their freshman classes.
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if some schools simply took the applicants with the best high school grades and highest SAT scores, and let the racial factor slide? I suspect their graduates would be in demand, unless firms continue to prize ESG above performance.
Ironically, a race-blind admissions policy benefits those BIPOC students who do attend as they are no longer suspected of being of lesser quality.
