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...Court's decision to strike down Michigan's undergraduate affirmative action policy in Gratz v. Bollinger, the impact will be slight. Many scholars and college officials who support affirmative action had expressed private concerns about Michigan's undergraduate plan, which rewarded more points for being black, Hispanic or Native American than for a perfect score on the SAT. Not only did the five more conservative justices attack it, but Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer, nearly always in the liberal wing, also voted against the undergraduate plan. Some other large state universities had used point systems like the University of Michigan...
...contrast, in Gratz the Court held that Michigan’s undergraduate point-based policy rewarded race to the exclusion of any nuanced consideration...
...vote by the justices overturned the University of Michigan’s undergraduate admissions policy in Gratz v. Bollinger. That policy automatically granted underrepresented minorities 20 points out of the 100 necessary for admission...
Though they hailed the day as an overall success, some professors and officials at Harvard said the Gratz ruling placed unnecessary restrictions on affirmative action programs—though Summers said it would have no effect on Harvard’s non-point-based system...
Orfield said he thought the decision in Gratz will be only a temporary stumbling block to affirmative action at large state schools like Michigan, and that the school would find a solution in time for next fall’s applicant pool—though the task will be “costly and difficult...