Hello, im ray suarez. In the real world of college admission, the art, not the science, a lot of variables are taken into account. Your high school transcript, sure. Can you hit a baseball, run really fast . Do you play the oboe or live in the part of the state or country that brings few applicants . Did your parents go to our school . An elder brother or sister. What admissions departments dont do is rank all their applicants by academic prowess and accept the top applicants for the 1,000 spots for the incoming fres freshman class. What about race . Taking race into account whether deciding to admit an individual applicant. You may endorse its value, and think of mixed student body both in class and in the determines, but it has gotten nothing but harder to take race in the account of the admissions process. What is allowed now is our focus this time on inside story. Lets start with background. The high Court Affirmative Action valuin ruling said that e should not be considered. Writi
Coming admissions are changing. The u. S. Supreme court dealt another blow to affirmative action programs this morning. The court u upheld the right of states to ban racial preferences in university admissions. This case does relate to voter pass constitutional amendment. The voters of michigan said that they didnt want to see any preference given in the Public University applicant process, not given for ethnicity, race or gender. A lower federal court overruled that and said that was discriminatory. The Supreme Court disagreed, and on a ruling 62, they upheld the Michigan State law, and this changed the michigan constitution. Justice pendy, he wrote this case is not about how the debate of racial preferences should be resolved but rather who may resolve it. And the constitution doesnt authoritoffer the authority to n state law. This is from justice sonya soto meyer, say this puts it to the university that other universities dont face. When you asked about what the implication will be
Hello, im ray suarez. In the real world of college admission, the art, not the science, a lot of variables are taken into account. Your high school transcript, sure. Can you hit a baseball, run really fast . Do you play the oboe or live in the part of the state or country that brings few applicants . Did your parents go to our school . An elder brother or sister. What admissions departments dont do is rank all their applicants by academic prowess and accept the top applicants for the 1,000 spots for the incoming fres freshman class. What about race . Taking race into account whether deciding to admit an individual applicant. You may endorse its value, and think of mixed student body both in class and in the determines, but it has gotten nothing but harder to take race in the account of the admissions process. What is allowed now is our focus this time on inside story. Lets start with background. The high Court Affirmative Action valuin ruling said that race should not be considered. Wr
Hello, im ray suarez. In the real world of college admission, the art, not the science, a lot of variables are taken into account. Your high school transcript, sure. Can you hit a baseball, run really fast . Do you play the oboe or live in the part of the state or country that brings few applicants . Did your parents go to our school . An elder brother or sister. What admissions departments dont do is rank all their applicants by academic prowess and accept the top applicants for the 1,000 spots for the incoming fres freshman class. What about race . Taking race into account whether deciding to admit an individual applicant. You may endorse its value, and think of mixed student body both in class and in the determines, but it has gotten nothing but harder to take race in the account of the admissions process. What is allowed now is our focus this time on inside story. Lets start with background. The high Court Affirmative Action valuin ruling said that race should not be considered. Wr
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. So an engineer has stabilized the dam for now. You heard them state their plan. Claire stagers with us from the university of lynchburg. Good to take to you, claire. Good to talk to you. How are you doing today . Shepard good. Might have been frightening when they said 125 houses could be under 17 feet of water. Yes, sir. Im not part of that but im close to it. It would turn my tenminute commute to 30 minutes if i had to reroute. Shepard i guess three inches of rain in an hour, thats a lot for anybody, even your part of the world. Yes, sir, a lot of water. Came into our basement as well last night. Shepard thanks, claire. I know theyve been trying to shore it up. They have taken a 3 x 3 foot area, a spillway, to relieve the pressure. The problem is theres rain on the way. Lets get to Rick Reichmuth live
in the extreme weather center. How are they looking in lynchburg . We have one bad batch of storms but things g