The Supreme Court agreed Friday to revisit the question of affirmative action in higher education, deciding to hear a case challenging Harvard and the University of North Carolina's use of race in college admissions.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the fall over the constitutionality of Harvard's affirmative action program.
The case at Harvard started in 2014, when the conservative activist group Students for Fair Admissions filed a suit against Harvard. The suit claimed that Harvard impermissibly used race in its admissions process and discriminated against Asian Americans. Now that Harvard must defend its own policies, the school says it treats every applicant as an individual and only looks at race as one piece in a holistic puzzle. But some Asian American students who were denied admission countered that Harvard's defense amounts to subterfuge. They alleged that Harvard effectively used racial quotas and discriminated against Asian-Americans.
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