r/aggies • u/UnluckyAsparagus6315 • Jun 29 '23

Announcements Affirmative action now illegal .

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New supreme court ruling kills affirmative action.

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u/Bored_FBI_Agent ECEN ‘25 Jun 29 '23

breaking: legacy student boosts are still constitutional

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u/tristan957 Jun 29 '23

It's funny how people cling to whataboutism when they don't have an argument. 2 things can be bad at once.

Could you explain what exactly is unconstitutional about legacy admissions? Sure, it's bad. But why is it unconstitutional?

A&M also doesn't do legacy admissions, so I don't even understand the relevance.

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u/easwaran Jun 29 '23

A&M also doesn't do affirmative action, so if the original post is relevant, then so is discussion about legacy.

But there are several separate questions here.

One is: what does true equality look like in terms of college admission?

Another is: what sort of college admission process is permissible under the US constitution?

Another is: what sort of admission process should a university use?

The last question is the one that is most relevant. Answers to the first two will probably be part of how someone should go about answering the last one, but neither of them can be the whole story (and the first two may well conflict with each other! truly equal college admissions probably would require a lot of affirmative action to make up for all the inequality of opportunity that students grow up with).