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When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for both the undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, and the law school case, Grutter v. Bollinger, Harvard’s admissions policy and research studies surfaced numerous times during the debate...
While the Court considers the Grutter and Gratz cases, two national conservative groups—the Center for Equal Opportunity and the Civil Rights Institute—are challenging the admissions policy of the HBS program...
...Grutter v. Bollinger, a 5-4 majority held that the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions policy is constitutionally acceptable. In that policy, race is used as one of several favored attributes in evaluating applicants—in addition to so-called “hard” variables such as test scores and grades—in order to achieve a “critical mass” of minority students for purposes of diversity...
...Grutter said at yesterday’s press conference that she still intends to go to law school if she is admitted...
When Kirk O. Kolbo, the attorney representing Grutter and Gratz, began his oral argument at 10 a.m., Justice Sandra Day O’Connor—widely considered to be one of the swing votes—quickly interrupted, noting that when a school receives “thousands of applications for just a few slots...inherent in that setting is making choices about which students to admit...