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i find the college as a component to this so confusing having had two seniors who have just gone through this the college essay is about your lived experience or it is supposed to be to shed light on who you are beyond your test scores and so what justice roberts said about it and i will read it to anyone he says nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant s discussion of how race affected his or her life. yet through discrimination or otherwise. but despite assertion to the contrary universities may not be established through application essays or other means the regina we hold today. what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly. it is confusing. reporter: it can be. remember when people are ....
Component to this, as you described, so confusing. having had to seniors who have just gone through this, the college essay is about your lived experience, or it supposed to be, to shed light on who you really, are beyond your test scores. and, so what justice roberts said about it, i ll just read to everyone. he says, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicants discussion of how race affected his or her life. be a true discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. but despite the dissent s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish, through application, essays or other means, the regime we hold unlawful today, what cannot be done directly, cannot be done indirectly. it is confusing. laura it can be, and you look at how do i really actually carry this out, without either offending the ruling, or the constitution as the majority is holding here. so remember, when people are talking about affirmative action, ....
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 ....