{"id":1745979,"date":"2022-11-20T06:02:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T11:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1745979"},"modified":"2022-11-20T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T16:33:08","slug":"ivy-league-schools-lower-admissions-standards-in-anticipation-of-scotus-ending-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivy-league-schools-lower-admissions-standards-in-anticipation-of-scotus-ending-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League Schools Lower Admissions Standards In Anticipation of SCOTUS Ending Affirmative Action"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fivy-league-schools-lower-admissions-standards-in-anticipation-of-scotus-ending-affirmative-action%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=1745979&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_AffirmativeAction.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-ive-heard-similar-arguments-in-favor-of-segregation-too-justice-thomas-takes-aim-at-affirmative-action\">Supreme Court<\/a> considers removing <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/supreme-court-to-hear-cases-on-college-admissions-and-affirmative-action\">affirmative action<\/a>\u00a0from the university admissions process, both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/disgraced-former-cnn-anchor-brian-stelter-gets-hired-by-harvard\">Harvard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/yale-law-journal-to-defend-anti-racist-indoctrination-in-upcoming-issue\">Yale<\/a> law schools this week announced they were exiting ranking by the US News &#038; World Report, which would reduce the elite colleges&#8217; reliance on merit-based LSAT scores for admissions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/yale-and-harvard-law-schools-unrank-themselves-u-s-news-and-world-report-rankings-college-heather-gerken-11668726298?st=iahkbi4ii60tq82&#038;reflink=share_mobilewebshare\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, &#8220;This sounds like cover for a desire by Yale to be free to admit students with lower test scores in service to diversity, but without taking a hit to its exclusive reputation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vivek Ramaswamy wrote on Twitter, &#8220;Yale and Harvard are actively preparing for the Supreme Court to strike down affirmative action: they are de-emphasizing test scores and GPAs, likely as a backdoor mechanism that gives them more wiggle room to achieve &#8216;diversity&#8217; at the expense of merit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yale Law Dean Gerken said, &#8220;Today, 20 percent of a law school&#8217;s overall ranking is median LSAT\/GRE scores and GPAs. While academic scores are an important tool, they don&#8217;t always capture the full measure of an applicant. This heavily weighted metric imposes tremendous pressure on schools to overlook promising students, especially those who cannot afford expensive test preparation courses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal called the LSAT a merit-based &#8220;equalizer,&#8221; and wrote that &#8220;for the price of a prep book, a low- or middle-income applicant can use an excellent score to compete with thousands of affluent applicants with polished resumes or connections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The forced-diversity issue is being litigated as <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-ive-heard-similar-arguments-in-favor-of-segregation-too-justice-thomas-takes-aim-at-affirmative-action\">the Supreme Court on October 31<\/a> heard oral arguments in two cases that challenge affirmative action in university admissions. The cases, brought forth by <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/supreme-court-to-hear-cases-on-college-admissions-and-affirmative-action\">Students for Fair Admissions<\/a> (SFFA), are against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, respectively, and were filed in federal court in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>At issue in these cases was the definition of the word &#8220;diversity&#8221;, whether or not said diversity is useful or preferable on campus, and whether or not it is discriminatory to use race as a determining factor in university admissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SFFA alleges that those who suffer most from Harvard&#8217;s affirmative action admissions standards are Asian American students. Asian American students of equal qualification to white, black, or Hispanic students, SFFA argues, are less likely to be admitted.<\/p>\n<p>The case against the University of North Carolina alleges that the school used affirmative action to create a diverse student body even though it didn&#8217;t need to use that method. UNC admissions use race as a &#8220;plus&#8221; factor, and this distinction was enough for federal district judge Loretta Biggs to allow the policy to stand.<\/p>\n<p>SFFA stands on the precedential case <em>Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> to argue that there should be no racial segregation in schools. These cases would overturn the 2003 Supreme Court ruling in <em>Grutter v. Bollinger<\/em> that explicitly allowed universities to use race as a factor in admissions for the purpose of achieving a racially diverse student body. The SFFA argues that the ruling in Grutter allowing racial considerations in university admissions was &#8220;egregiously wrong&#8221;, that it has led to &#8220;significant negative consequences&#8221;, and that the previous ruling is essentially outmoded, nearly 20 years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Supreme Court considers removing affirmative action\u00a0from the university admissions process, both\u00a0Harvard and Yale law schools this week announced they were exiting ranking by the US News &#038; World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1745982,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745979","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}