The Supreme Court has held that to be a legitimate goal going back to the Bakke case in 1978. This is not a big problem, proponents of affirmative action say, especially given the fact that Harvard and UNC argue race in admissions creates campus diversity. That number falls to a negligible 0.0055 percent among the top 100 schools. At that rate, if the top two dozen schools are considered, Blum’s 22,000 students account for just 2% of total rejections. In 2022, UNC received 43,500 applications for a freshman class of 4,325. However, one was described but not named in the Harvard case as a Chinese student with first generation immigrant parents, perfect test scores and the best GPA in his class of 460. None of Blum’s 22,000 alleged victims have testified.

He claims his non-profit has 22,000 members who were wrongly rejected by universities that use race conscious criteria to evaluate prospective students. SFFA is a creation of conservative activist Edward Blum. Further, SFFA says Harvard’s admission policies discriminate against Asian American applicants. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) is suing Harvard and University of North Carolina (UNC) for considering race in their application process. On October 31, the Supreme Court will hear two cases that will determine the future of affirmative action.

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