{"id":1688895,"date":"2022-10-14T08:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1688895"},"modified":"2022-10-14T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:42:49","slug":"will-the-supreme-court-finally-put-the-kibosh-on-harvards-race-based-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-the-supreme-court-finally-put-the-kibosh-on-harvards-race-based-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Will The Supreme Court Finally Put The Kibosh On Harvard\u2019s Race-Based Admissions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-the-supreme-court-finally-put-the-kibosh-on-harvards-race-based-admissions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1688895&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the Supreme Court gears up to review <em>Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard <\/em>later this year or early next, students, parents, and policy advocates eagerly await a final ruling on whether universities will continue to be able to discriminate against Asian American applicants. Originally filed in 2014 by a coalition of Asian Americans rejected by Harvard University, the lawsuit has the potential to completely shake up the current modus operandi of college admissions in America.<\/p>\n<p>There are several legal principles at play within any college admission system. Harvard receives federal funding, meaning it must comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which bans any discrimination on the basis of race). Furthermore, the 1978 Supreme Court case <em>Regents of the University of California v. Bakke<\/em> banned the explicit use of racial quotas in the college admissions process. However, later cases clarified that a \u201cwhole person review\u201d is legal: colleges are allowed to consider various aspects of a person\u2019s background beyond just race, but they cannot simply admit a student <em>because<\/em> of their race. Finally, in 2016, the Supreme Court ruled in <em>Fisher v. University of Texas <\/em>that colleges could only make use of race-conscious admissions protocols if they could prove such protocols were the only way to meet diversity goals.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Students for Fair Admissions <\/em>lawsuit centers around alleged racial discrimination conducted by Harvard in the interest of maintaining a diverse student body. \u201cDiversity,\u201d of course, is a common buzzword in 2022 that few individuals dare question in public. After all, who would still be welcome in polite society after expressing opposition to \u201cdiversity\u201d? And Harvard\u2019s general defense centers around this same theme: of course diversity is a compelling interest for our community, scholarship, and student body. We want students of all backgrounds to be able to contribute to campus culture. Don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>But the reality is much more nefarious. What Harvard calls \u201cdiversity\u201d is, in practice, discrimination against Asian Americans for the sake of allowing other varieties of minorities in at inflated rates. Some of the statistics put forth by the plaintiff are startling: if Harvard admitted students based on academic merit alone, Asian Americans would make up almost 50 percent of the student body (as opposed to approximately 20 percent currently). Even more incredible? A black applicant to Harvard in the <em>fourth-lowest<\/em> academic decile has a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/03\/higher-ed-vs-asian-students-in-supreme-courts-harvard-discrimination-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">higher chance of admission<\/a> than an Asian American in the <em>very top <\/em>decile. What Harvard pitches as a commitment to diversity is truthfully a race-based benefit program for non-Asian and non-white students who can\u2019t score high enough to compete on academic merit alone.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s Defense<\/p>\n<p>Harvard denies using any racial quota, and there are no best practices at Harvard strictly stating that Asians can\u2019t exceed 20 percent of the student body (at least as far as we know). But Students for Fair Admissions argues that Harvard\u2019s holistic review process is in effect a soft quota that provides cover for their racist admissions process. Harvard uses multiple data points to evaluate prospective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court can rededicate the nation to the ideals of colorblindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356,"featured_media":1897958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Will The Supreme Court Finally Put The Kibosh On Harvard\u2019s Race-Based Admissions?","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Will The Supreme Court Finally Put The Kibosh On Harvard\u2019s Race-Based Admissions?","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/14\/will-the-supreme-court-finally-put-the-kibosh-on-harvards-race-based-admissions\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-the-supreme-court-finally-put-the-kibosh-on-harvards-race-based-admissions","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}