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Among the other university leaders to whom the two groups have sent letters, several have replied asking for time to investigate the programs in question, Blum said...
...Although Blum would not disclose a copy of his letter, he said it states that the organizations will give Harvard about three weeks to change its SVMP policy before they take further action...
...Blum said the University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic and State University and Iowa State University have also recently changed the admissions policies of similar programs...
...while the letter comes one month after Harvard filed its friend-of-the-court brief supporting affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan, Blum said that this case involved a very different issue—restricting admissions to certain races, not considering race as one of many factors in admissions...
...Supreme Court case has nothing to do with the kind of program Harvard is offering here,” Blum said. “[SVMP] is racially exclusive, whereas the University of Michigan’s admissions program is a racial preference question...