Economics
The Future of College Admissions: Experts Weigh the Harvard Case
- Supreme Court could severely narrow race-conscious systems
- A threat to diversity or the end of an un-American blight?
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Lawyers fighting to make Harvard drop race as an admissions factor and those battling to protect the college’s diversity system have their marching orders. Tell me what you think the evidence shows and meet me back in court Feb. 13, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs told them.
Burroughs this month wrapped up a three-week trial in Boston over a lawsuit claiming that Harvard College limits the number of Asian-Americans it admits. Now, as the case makes its way toward a likely last stop at the Supreme Court, in a racially and politically charged environment, a question hangs in the air.