In a 4-3 vote today the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas' admissions policy that takes into account the race or ethnicity of applicants who aren't automatically admitted under the school's "10 Percent" rule. (The top percentage of all Texas high school graduates are automatically qualified for admittance; it's not always 10 percent, but that's that's the name it's given.)
The http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-university-of-texas.html">case was brought by Abigail Fischer a white woman who claimed that, although she wasn't in the top 10 percent of her college class, she was denied admissions because she is white. She has since graduated from Louisiana State University.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-university-of-texas.html">Read more here.
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