Did Affirmative Action for Blacks / Hispanics prevent White race Abigail Fisher from get into a Texas college?

It is a straight up merit based top 10% admitted at UT for the first 6,000 out of a total of 7,000 accepted at UT. The last 1,000 are accepted holistically in which factors such as race, sex, legacy, athletic ability, extra curricular activites and other academic qualifications such as high SAT scores etc are considered. Do you expect race based admissions should end before legacy and sex based admissions?

Also, I am not sure we can exclude knowledge of race from the admission process unless we expect universities to not interview applicants and ban essays in which students disclose their race. It does not seem practical. In an ideal world I agree race should not be a factor, but in a country where race has been a historical player in how money and resources are distributed, mostly in the hands of people who belong to one race, with the help of past racist laws and that people in America, still attend churches and socialize along racial lines, I doubt a reasonable person would think

commonsense, It is a straight up merit based top 10% admitted at UT for the first 6,000 out of a total of 7,000 accepted at UT. The last 1,000 are accepted holistically in which factors such as race, sex, legacy, athletic ability, extra curricular activites and other academic qualifications such as high SAT scores etc are considered. Do you expect race based admissions should end before legacy and sex based admissions?

Also, I am not sure we can exclude knowledge of race from the admission process unless we expect universities to not interview applicants and ban essays in which students disclose their race. It does not seem practical. In an ideal world I agree race should not be a factor, but in a country where race has been a historical player in how money and resources are distributed, mostly in the hands of people who belong to one race, with the help of past racist laws and that people in America, still attend churches and socialize along racial lines, I doubt a reasonable person

Common Sense, It is a straight up merit based top 10% admitted at UT for the first 6,000 out of a total of 7,000 accepted at UT. The last 1,000 are accepted holistically in which factors such as race, sex, legacy, athletic ability, extra curricular activities and other academic qualifications such as high SAT scores etc are considered.

I am not sure we can exclude knowledge of race from the admission process unless we expect universities to not interview applicants and ban essays in which students disclose their race. It does not seem practical. In an ideal world I agree race should not be a factor, but in a country where race has been a historical player in how money and resources are distributed, the role of racist laws in that distribution and that people in America still attend churches and socialize along racial lines, I doubt a university would not want to consider the role of race in an applicant's life.

Je veux medical advice, The remaining 1000 are admitted on merit - holistically. Adcoms are sometimes looking for Black or Hispanic kids with higher academic potential than their scores suggest due to the influence of poor schools, counselors, family conditions, church and other institutions in his/ her world before college. In essense, the Adcom is looking for Black and Hispanic kids who have the potential to score higher on the GRE than the suburban white kid who may have a slightly higher SAT after four years of equal opportunity in college. In holistic admission race is just one factor and it does not equally help every Black or Hispanic. In other words they do not all get 50 extra points for being Black or keep admitting minorities until they meet some quota. This is obviously how race is being factored in at UT otherwise, UT would not be admitting more Whites with low SAT scores than Hispanics and Blacks. It is not like there is a shortage of underachieving Blacks and Hispani