Admissions post Fisher ruling Forum

[johnnysacks]

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[theharveyspector]

Even so, URM would still be a factor that schools could consider.

[TheProdigal]

I'm guessing that your best bet for any decent insight would be in Spivey's thread: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 3&t=197451

I'm sure this has been discussed within schools and adcoms, but I doubt any of the Deans who publicly post here are going to weigh in.

[ac8876a]

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But this ruling will not impact private schools at all, correct?

[johnnysacks]

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[Person1111]

No way of knowing for sure. If the Court rules it violates the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause then it would be illegal to consider race in admissions meaning even private schools would be affected.

That's not true. The EPC doesn't apply to non-state actors and it doesn't prohibit private schools from using AA one way or the other.

Plus they take federal money too so it would definitely put them in a bind.

Not necessarily. Congress could certainly condition federal funding on eliminating affirmative action, just as it conditions federal funding on Title IX compliance now. And there might be a colorable argument that some forms of AA violate Title IX (a group of Asian-Americans is suing Harvard on this theory right now). But that has very little to do with the Constitution or what the Court does in Fisher.

[Big Dog]

A 173 [splitter] does extremely well in this current admissions environment. Harvard has a huge class and like all the top schools, would love to maintain its medians. Since there aren't enough 173's to go around with the other T14s' merit money, H needs to accept most of the 173's that apply.

[Broncos15]

A 173 [splitter] does extremely well in this current admissions environment. Harvard has a huge class and like all the top schools, would love to maintain its medians. Since there aren't enough 173's to go around with the other T14s' merit money, H needs to accept most of the 173's that apply.

Harvard isn't generally splitter friendly, 3.6 is the current Non URM soft floor, although some 3.5X's do get in

[Broncos15]

If SCOTUS sided with Fisher , does anyone here think schools would change towards admissions policies similar to Cal Berkeley where GPA's are favored more than LSAT's to increase the diversity.

( I have anecdotally heard this so take it with a grain of salt, but i have heard that Berk has its admissions policy set up that way since it bring in more diversity from URM candidates who are more likely to be reverse splitter 3.85/165 for example than a traditional splitter)