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Cornell’s Legacy Admissions Process Sparks Debate Following Removal of Affirmative Action
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The Supreme Court’s ending of affirmative action has the potential to impact how Cornell admissions consider legacy applicants.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/supreme-court-affirmative-action/)
The Supreme Court’s ending of affirmative action has the potential to impact how Cornell admissions consider legacy applicants.
If the Court bans race-conscious admissions, decades of progress toward equal opportunity will be reversed and the wealth of perspectives that we enjoy in academic forums today could dwindle in years to come. We also stand to lose a time-honored, effective mechanism “to counteract the inherited disadvantages that unequally but in patterned ways burden certain races in our society but not others,” Prof. Nelson Tebbe, law, told me. Tebbe, a constitutional law expert, stressed the importance of recognizing “structural racism as an empirical reality in the United States.”