Their race had an impact on them going up. but, what does that do, number one, and how do you make that effective and functioning in a way that does not open the university of to a flood of litigation. i am glad you brought that up. we ve had discussions on this program about how vague those instructions are. you cannot consider race but feel free to put it into your essay because that is your lived experience. so, you say that this could spot a cottage industry of litigation. like what? here s a great example. again, imagine a kid puts in a college essay, my parents are from senegal, i am black, i am also a champion soccer player and my dad have been to go to this university. right? there s a number of factors that are going to affect them, and maybe they consider that students race, right? so, has the school violated the law by thinking about this person s race? to the cottage industry point on this, i do wonder if you are a nonprofit opposed to the use of race in admissions, why
Soon after eliminate legacy preferences and i hope we see that across-the-board. i think that universities are genuinely concerned about racial diversity, and so, that is one of the cases of low hanging fruit illuminate legacy preferences for wealthy whites and you will create a fairer system, and you will get more racial diversity. this does behoove colleges, having diversity on campus, students want that, it helps the student body. so, is it possible they are just going to have to get more creative? or, do you think this is going to cut into that goal? they have to get more creative if they wish number one, they have to define what diversity means but even when speaking about asians, there has been so much discussion about asian americans today. what you mean, are you talking about east asians? south asians, southeast asians? each of whom have different experiences in this country and different economic relations. all of the above. so, then the question comes up as justice robe
Conversation i had with that student, and a high schooler planning to apply to harvard this fall. i hope this is an opportunity to harvard to step up in recruitment and other efforts. i think it would also be wrong of me to say that i m not scared. this is really bad for me because i feel like right now that they are abandoning i feel like it s taken a really bad part of me. right now it s only my college essay and my resume they re asking for. normally, for my personal background and my ethnicity, and everything that makes up me. reporter: that anxiety that you hear from vincent, the high schooler you heard from is a lot of what we have been hearing over the last several days as people prepared for this moment, that it s about students coming up behind the undergrads right now and this could change the ways in which they go about the application process. it s going to change the ways in which they dream about which
Keep hearing is that people are feeling like it s a gut punch. they are in the midst of processing it. that s even with the reality they have been expecting this, dreading it. that s another word i heard. we have known since the very earliest stages of this lawsuit it was going to wind its way to the supreme court and this was likely going to be the outcome. what s on students minds is what happens to future generations of different kinds of students from all sorts of backgrounds who are interested to applying to harvard and other schools impacted by this ruling? i have a high school student who is very soon going to be applying to college with me. vincent, thank you so much for making time to join us. tell me, how are you processing this? what does this decision mean to you? this is bad for me. i feel like right now that they are banning i feel like it s taking right now it s only my college essay and my resume that they are asking for. normally, because it s for my
Face of white supremacy and the poster child for affirmative action? come on. this ruling s big and looks air tight, but there s wiggle room for race to play a role. the court says, quote, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an application s discussion of how race has affected his or her life. but it s, it s but be it through discrimination or inspiration or otherwise. end of quote. jesse: so the schools can t put in writing that they discriminate based in race, but if an applicant writes their college essay about their experience as a black american or their experience being discriminated because of race, that will probably help their chances, in all honesty. and harvard s aware of the college essay wiggle room thing so racial discrimination in practice will probably still exist. it will probably take a few more lawsuits to be completely