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During the second hour, lawyers argued the case of Jennifer Gratz, a Michigan resident with a 3.8 GPA and an ACT score of 25 out of 36 possible points who was rejected from Michigan??s undergraduate program...
...Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, who spoke for 10 minutes in each case on behalf of the U.S. Government, repeatedly referred to Michigan??s law school and undergraduate policies as “a thinly disguised quota...
Maureen E. Mahoney, the attorney for University of Michigan Law School, and John Payton, the attorney for Michigan??s undergraduate program, rejected the notion of the school’s policies as quotas, and instead spent the majority of their arguments describing the need for racial preferences...
Mahoney explicitly referred to Harvard’s plan as a model plan without a quota, and then compared it to Michigan??s law school policy of considering race as one factor in admissions...
Along with that concept, Michigan??s attorneys argued that a “critical mass”—comprising a certain number of minority students whose presence is necessary at a university to make other minority students feel welcome—served a key role in ensuring diversity...