The plaintiff, Students for Fair Admission, plans to appeal this decision to the First Court of Appeals and, if necessary, to the U.S Supreme Court.
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The lawsuit lifted the curtain on an elite university's admissions policy, which had long been shrouded in secrecy, forcing Harvard to reveal for the first time how its admissions officers treat special categories, including legacy applicants, applicants whose families made sizeable donations, children of faculty and recruited athletes, the latter of which were admitted 86 percent of the time.
The revelation, among others, plays into the ongoing narrative that higher education is a rigged system accessible only to the wealthiest and most elite families – a point further bolstered by the recent college admissions scandal, in which parents paid a college counselor a combined $25 million to help students cheat on college entrance exams and gain them admission to elite colleges and universities as recruited athletes when in reality they were not athletes at all.
- Judge Upholds Harvard’s Race-Based Admissions Policy, USNews.com, October 1, 2019.
2. Former President Barack Obama, during the first of two virtual commencement speeches he will give on Saturday, said the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted a lack of political leadership during the crisis.
"More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” Obama said during his speech. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”
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