I 100% agree with you here:

Right, but that still doesn’t answer my question of, what right does UT Austin have to say that one high schooler is smarter than another because of where they went to high school? I’m not sure if UT Austin (and, by proxy, us as voters who choose the legislators who then choose the UT Austin board) should value high…

Right, that’s what I was saying. I completely agree that her argument for discrimination under the holistic admission policies is moot. She was a worse student than those she was competing against. End of story.

See my response to mollymlf05. I haven’t seen any analysis address this point at all.

I mean, in a sense, people are numbers. Let’s take GPA, for instance and set up a scenario in which you spent four years at an elite high school, pulling all-nighters, writing 20-page papers, studying through weekends instead of seeing friends, etc. You ended up with a 3.50 GPA, which would put you in only the top 12%…

YES. The burnt orange/maize and blue/whatever color college paraphernalia around suburban white upper-middle class households is just straight nauseating.

My question to UT Austin would be this: If the school ran the median test scores of four different racial/ethnic groups (white, black, Hispanic, Asian) of admitted students, would Abigail Fischer have had better test scores than any of those students? If yes, then we must question UT Austin’s admittance policies.