University of Texas Admissions Controversy

The University of Texas at Austin has a unique admission factor consideration system that promotes diversity. About seventy five percent of their student body comes from students who graduated in the top ten percent of their class because the university grants any student that falls under this category automatic admission to the school. In the remaining twenty five percent, the admissions at University of Texas at Austin evaluates prospective students not only based on GPAs and SAT scores, but also on their family living conditions and the number of languages spoken in their house. These factors help promote the school's diversity, but Abigail Fisher found fault with this. She did not get accepted into the school in 2008 and brought to the Court the belief that the system "offended the Constitution's promise of equal protection" (Editorial Board).

The article "Editorial: Race-based admissions" uses strong justice diction and formulates an opinion. Some of the justice diction includes "Supreme Court", "admonition", "appeals court", "precedent", "circuit split", and "ruling". The opinion formulated by the Editorial Board in this article is shown in the line "If the court finds fault with UT's unique approach, it should keep its ruling narrow to address only those instances in which the university may have overstepped existing law," (Editorial Board). They believe that University of Texas at Austin should correct their wrongdoings but keep their system to promote their diversity. If the system helps the school become diverse, then a few cases should not erase that system.

Source: Editorial Board. "Editorial: Race-based admissions ." Washington Post 3 Mar. 2012, sec. Opinion: n. pag. Washington Post. Web. 4 Mar. 2012.