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Just two years after the Supreme Court rejected its bid to challenge affirmative action in admissions at the University of Texas, Austin, conservative activist Edward Blum is at it again.

According to an Educative Dive article, Blum’s Students for Fair Admissions is suing UT Austin for using race in the admissions process. Blum also bankrolled the case against the same school in 2016. This anti-affirmative action group aims to remove race from the admissions equation.

The group had previously sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for following the same procedures back in 2014. They also claim in an article by The Chronicle, that their case is almost exactly like Fisher v. UT Austin.

In the 2016 case, the petitioner was a White applicant named Abigail Fisher.

Fisher did not qualify for automatic admissions to UT Austin, which is guaranteed to the top ten percent of graduates at any Texas high school. In 2008, she was rejected from the college and argued that her race was the reason why.

Believing that her other merits should have qualified her, Fisher sued the school. However, the Supreme Court sided with UT Austin, stating that considering race as a means of promoting diversity was legitimate.

Colleges struggle to find the perfect medium between advocating diversity on campus and considering an application solely based on grades Some campuses do indeed consider race a factor while some states have completely banned affirmative action. Some believe examining other traits such as financial background and family upbringing would make the admissions process more objective.

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