The Supreme Court began hearing arguments over whether colleges can consider race in admissions decisions, focusing on what attributes of applicants schools could consider if the challengers prevailed
whether colleges can consider race in admissions decisions
, a practice the justices approved in 1978 and repeatedly reaffirmed but today’s more conservative majority agreed to review. The court first heard a case against the University of North Carolina, a state flagship, and later Monday will hear another involving a private Ivy League institution, Harvard College.
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