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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by ballenf on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:15PM (#24726062)
Yale may choose whatever admission criteria it wants except for a handful of prohibited criteria. Race is one of them, according to the DOJ.

Yale could presumably choose to admit only students scoring high but not too high if they wanted to. Or only take soccer players. Or only admit tuba players.

But they are being challenged for including race as one of those criteria.

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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by tchaffee on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:14AM (#24728772)
You repeated what I already read in the article and didn't answer any of my questions. Harvard won a similar lawsuit and the government has ruled before that race can be considered to eliminate discrimination. So both the issue and the law are more nuanced than you are making them out to be. How about answering my questions or getting into enough detail and nuance that it would move the conversation forward?
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