Every blow to affirmative action sends people casting about desperately for alternatives. With the particular hostility of the Roberts Court to race-conscious admissions policies, the blows are coming faster and faster these days. And Tuesday's US supreme court ruling in Schuette v Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action was no different: socioeconomic-based affirmative action is now the impending – but seriously flawed – substitute to which universities are turning as they anticipate a day, perhaps in the not-so-distant future, when they can no longer consider race in the application process.
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