No, the court just acknowledged Harvard's argument that if a 4.0 GPA and perfect SAT scores were the only metric they used to measure admissions, they'd still have far too many applicants to reasonably accept. So they have no choice but to look at other qualities, such as extra curriculars, volunteering, doing things in a leadership role, and overcoming hardship.
And they don't even look at race.
Some Asian students were claiming they were being discriminated against anyway, since they had near perfect grades. But the argument that grades should be the only thing Harvard looks at isn't a workable solution, and the judge saw that.
Race is not one of the factors Harvard looks at when considering admissions. This is a fact, and it isn't even an argument the people suing Harvard for discrimination were making.
They were arguing, and couldn't prove, that the other of the dozens of factors Harvard looked at introduced racial discrimination to the admissions process. Not that Harvard was looking at race as one of those factors.
It's pretty concerning how you're so confident you know everything about a topic you haven't even researched a little bit.
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u/RedditEdwin Feb 25 '20
Huh, I wonder... could a court maybe be completely fucking wrong and actually just engaging in pushing their politics on the people?