Students For Fair Admissions, Inc.v. President And Fellows Of Harvard College

143 S. Ct. 2141 (2023)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

The admissions process at D can and does take an applicant’s race into account.” Race considerations are infused into the process. There is no time or period where race is not one of the major considerations for admission. Race is without a doubt considered front and center at all levels of the process. In the Harvard admissions process, “race is a determinative tip for” a significant percentage “of all admitted African American and Hispanic applicants.” The same can be said at the University of North Carolina (UNC). P is a nonprofit organization founded “to defend human and civil rights secured by law, including the right of individuals to equal protection under the law.” In November 2014, P filed separate lawsuits against D and UNC arguing that their race-based admissions programs violated, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U. S. C. §2000d et seq., and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The District Court concluded that D’s admissions program comported with our precedents on the use of race in college admissions. In the UNC case, the District Court concluded that UNC’s admissions program was permissible under the Equal Protection Clause. The Supreme Court granted certiorari.