#SCOTUS: Affirmative Action as an admissions tool & What is to be done?. Richard Epstein Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
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#SCOTUS: Affirmative Action as an admissions tool & What is to be done?. Richard Epstein Hoover Institution
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/13/colleges-find-workarounds-to-continue-de-facto-aff/
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| 0:36.9 | I'm John Bass with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, anticipating the Supreme |
| 0:42.7 | Court's decision about affirmative action. |
| 0:46.0 | Later this year, some universities are already making decisions to anticipate |
| 0:51.8 | that affirmative action will no longer be a tool for admissions. |
| 0:55.4 | I come to Columbia University, said by a headline to be the first Ivy League school to ditch |
| 1:01.6 | standardized test requirements. |
| 1:03.7 | That's the SATs. |
| 1:05.1 | Richard, you guide me to anticipating the affirmative action decision, but also how colleges are |
| 1:12.0 | adjusting to this immediate future. |
| 1:15.8 | What is your opinion of the ability of removing the SATs? |
| 1:21.5 | What will that do to universities? |
| 1:23.0 | What will that do to the decision-makers in the Dean's office about the new classes? |
| 1:29.0 | Well, I think it's going to be something of a travesty, but let's go back to the beginning. |
| 1:34.4 | The first point is that no one is going to require it, but now imagine that you're a |
| 1:38.7 | highly qualified well-heeled suburban applicant. |
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