{"id":1989292,"date":"2023-08-02T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-law-school-removes-application-requirement-from-website-after-report-exposes-willful-effort-to-evade-affirmative-action-ban\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T02:19:12","slug":"columbia-law-school-removes-application-requirement-from-website-after-report-exposes-willful-effort-to-evade-affirmative-action-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-law-school-removes-application-requirement-from-website-after-report-exposes-willful-effort-to-evade-affirmative-action-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Law School removes application requirement following report on affirmative action evasion."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fcolumbia-law-school-removes-application-requirement-from-website-after-report-exposes-willful-effort-to-evade-affirmative-action-ban%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=1989292&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--><h2>Columbia Law School Removes Questionable Admission Requirement<\/h2>\n<p>Columbia Law School\u2064 has recently made changes to its admission \u2064process for transfer students. \u200bThis decision came after concerns were raised about a potential loophole being used to \u200cbypass the U.S. Supreme Court ban on affirmative action, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-law-school-said-it-would-require-applicants-to-submit-video-statements-in-the-wake-of-affirmative-action-ban-then-it-backtracked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court ruling in June \u200cdeclared that \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-exempts-military-academies-in-affirmative-action-ruling\/\" title=\"Supreme Court exempts military academies from affirmative action ruling.\">race-based admissions programs<\/a> at \u200dHarvard University and the University of North Carolina violated civil rights laws. This landmark decision has had a significant\u2064 impact on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/winsome-sears-calls-ketanji-brown-jackson-a-diversity-hire\/\" title=\"Winsome Sears labels Ketanji Brown Jackson as a diversity hire.\">university admissions processes nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ban on race-based \u2064admissions, \u2064some universities have indicated \u200dtheir intention to find\u2063 loopholes in the ruling,\u2062 as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/universities-react-to-scotus-affirmative-action-ruling-harvard-vows-to-find-loophole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Columbia Law School&#8217;s admissions page stated that transfer applicants must submit a 90-second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-law-school-removes-application-requirement-from-website-after-report-exposes-willful-effort-to-evade-affirmative-action-ban\/\" title=\"Columbia Law School removes application requirement following report on affirmative action evasion.\">video\u2062 statement \u2062addressing random questions<\/a>. This requirement was seen as an attempt to \u200bevade the requirements of the Civil Rights Act, according to Edward Blum, founder of the \u2062nonprofit organization Students for Fair Admissions.<\/p>\n<p>Blum&#8217;s organization had previously challenged \u200celite universities for allegedly considering race unfairly in their admissions \u2063processes. The Supreme Court ruled against Harvard and\u2063 UNC in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Following the report by The Washington Free Beacon, Columbia Law School clarified that the video statement component was \u2062a misunderstanding and had been removed from the website. The school stated that\u200c video statements would not be required for the Fall 2024 J.D. application.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that other colleges, such as Sarah Lawrence \u200dCollege in New York, have found alternative ways to inquire about a student&#8217;s race, including asking\u200d how the \u2063Supreme Court ruling has personally affected them, as reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/01\/columbia-university-claims-video-requirement-on-application-was-an-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET\u2063 THE DAILY WIRE \u200bAPP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia Law School eliminated a dubious admission requirement for transfer students following concerns raised by The Washington Free Beacon. The application process seemed to exploit a loophole in the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s ban on affirmative action. This decision came after a significant ruling by SCOTUS before their recess in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1989293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1989292","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}