> The Zhongs' suit follows one filed on Feb. 3 by Students Against Racial Discrimination, which alleges UC's use of holistic admissions--meaning non-academic factors, like extracurriculars and life circumstances--diminishes academic merit and hurts Asian American and white applicants.

These institutions will tell you they aren't just there to provide boilerplate "I grind harder than everyone else" degrees, they go out of their way to be more than that. That's why their degrees are valued. In order do to this, they provide an enriched social environment that exposes students to more than just the top X people who were the best at grinding on test prep.

Someone could easily start a school that only accepts based on test score, nothing else. I wonder why nobody thinks that would be a valuable degree?