Supreme Court case claims Harvard discriminated against applicants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Affirmative action policies usually work by placing requirements on institutions to admit set quotas of individuals of specific background into their organizations - those institutions often include universities and employers.
55% : The schools argue that affirmative action policies - that enable them to take race into account when considering applicants - help them to create diverse learning environments.
48% : 'The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,' Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 2007 opinion about the use of race when assigning kids to public schools.
47% : He is a major proponent of eliminating affirmative action policies and has brought eight cases to the Supreme Court
33% : But in recent decades affirmative action has become an increasingly unpopular approach to dealing with racial inequalities within institutions and in society.

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