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Wait, so they had a choice between using an objective system and being racist and they dropped the objective system?

If they had stopped accounting for race, the number of black students would have dropped greatly. I remember that court decision, and it made absolutely no sense, it was something like "You can consider race as a factor, but it can't be the deciding factor for picking a student" which is nonsensical to anyone who has even a basic grasp of math.

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