This will be brief. The Supreme Court is set to hear another case about affirmative action in education. A Texas student was not accepted for the University of Texas and has claimed that the only difference between her and other students who did get in is her skin color—she’s white.
Now, by all accounts, she is an excellent student. According to UT, though, she wasn’t good enough. They use two metrics to select enrollees—academic scores and what they call “personal achievement” indices, which include extracurricular activities and an essay which is supposed to reveal leadership potential and other qualities that can’t be scored on a test. …