The Supreme Court will begin hearing two cases on Monday challenging the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions at Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. Here's a look at the cases and what's at stake.
UCLA responded to those numbers by recrafting its admissions policies to take a more"holistic" approach, considering several factors including whether students were the first in their family to go to college, what high school they went to and their family's income.
But so far, researchers say, none of the alternatives have been as effective as race-conscious admissions. Nothing is as good at helping to enroll a more racially equitable class than using race. Nothing comes close to it.In two amicus briefs filed ahead of the Harvard-UNC arguments at the Supreme Court, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley both admitted their efforts to meet their diversity goalsBut not every school says it is struggling to achieve diversity without race-conscious admissions.
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