That’s false, of course: Harvard can consider whatever it likes, so long as it doesn’t subject people to illegal discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity. What’s more, the ...

Bakke, in which a fragmented U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of racial quotas but affirmed the legitimacy of considering race ... holistic admissions system” as practiced by Harvard ...

When colleges began announcing the makeup of their incoming freshman classes last year—the first admissions cycle since the ...

Harvard’s lawyer Seth Waxman ... no answer to the stark disparity that the chart reveals. As Waxman acknowledged, the district court found that race was determinative for a full 45% of African ...

(In Students for Fair Admissions, the Court had found that Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policies discriminated against Asian applicants.) The information gap has led outside observers to ...