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I don't see where dulac said the kid was black, but let's by Tex Francisco

assume he was and some of the facts were reversed. Between a wealthy black student with tutors and a 1350 SAT and a white student with a 1500 SAT and a harder life, who gets admitted? I have a hard time imagining it's not the black student. The Harvard/UNC SCOTUS case gave some hard facts on the amount of preference given to certain groups vis-a-vis other groups, and it was absolutely massive. It's not the gentle thumb on the scale that people like to characterize it as.