I am interested to hear people's opinions regarding this case since I go to UT and it is somewhat interesting to see that my school's case is having a Supreme Court hearing tomorrow. To sum it up, a white girl applied to UT in 2008 and did not get in. She claimed that she didn't get in because she was white and that affirmative action prevented her from getting in. My opinion: back in 2008, the University of Texas had a top 10% auto admission rule where if you attended a Texas public school and were in the top 10% of your graduating high school, you automatically got into UT. This filled up 80% of the UT spots and then the remaining included international students, out of state students, private school students in texas, student athletes, and public Texas school students not in the top 10% as the rest. Fisher attended a Texas public high school but wasn't in the top 10% of her class so in my opinion, she didn't deserve to get accepted and wasn't denied because of race. There is just too much competition for her to try to get in to the school while not being in the top 10%. She believes otherwise. What are your opinions on this? What do you think should happen with affirmative action? This case could potentially end affirmative action in its entirety. I strongly believe that race was not the reason she got denied into UT but I do think that she might have an argument about affirmative action in general. Universities are allowed to take race into account when looking into an application but are not allowed to use it entirely as a determination on whether or not a student gets in. Please no racist comments.
Yea guys I agree, I don't think she has an argument there. I think that the top 10% rule needs to be done away with because UT just doesn't have enough room to look many other applications. They have dropped the requirement to top 8% for that reason but meh. The important thing, in my opinion, is that this case could potentially end affirmative action in its entirety. Or if not, it could change affirmative action to some extent or not change it at all. I think that is the bigger issue.