In Fisher I, the court declined to strike down the use of race preferences in higher education admissions under the regime established in Grutter & Gratz, but remanded for closer analysis of a TX plan for its narrow tailoring to the goal of diversity The 5th circuit upheld the planFisher appealed to SCOTUS againThe University of TX’s admissions policy was a direct result of Grutter, but not identical to that approved policy. The university continues to fill a significant majority of its class through the Top 10% plan, whereby up to 75% of places in the school are filled through the plan (a student needs to finish in the top 7-8% of their class to be admitted under this category). For the remaining 25% of the class, TX admits based on a combination of AI and PAI scores, while race is given weight as a sub-factor within the Personal Achievement Index. Therefore, admissions officers can consider race as a positive feature of a minority student’s application (as a factor of a factor of a factor in the holistic review calculus) The university engages in periodic reassessment of the constitutionality and efficacy of its admissions program
Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (2016)
Supreme Court of the United States
136 S. Ct. 2198
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