Texas Scorecard by Jacob Asmussen July 28, 2021
“We look forward to asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to review and reverse the dismissal of this important civil rights case.”Despite a federal judge’s dismissal this week, the fight to end racial discrimination in college admissions still continues in Texas and across the nation.
On Monday, federal Judge Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas threw out a lawsuit that challenged the University of Texas at Austin’s discriminatory admissions rules. The lawsuit claimed administration officials recently denied two white student applicants equal opportunity because of their skin color.
“For recent admissions cycles, UT-Austin has continued to ask students to classify themselves from among a select group of broad racial categories on the application … and it still discriminates on the basis of race in admitting the portion of the freshman class enrolled outside the operation of the Top Ten Percent Plan,” the lawsuit read.
“In other words, UT-Austin gives special preference to applicants who fall within racial categories that the university considers ‘underrepresented.’ Given the limited number of spaces in UT-Austin’s freshman class, granting a racial preference to African-American and Hispanic applicants diminishes the chances of admission for White and Asian-American applicants.”
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