Foreword
In 2008, Abigail Noel Fisher was denied admission to the undergraduate program at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). She has since received a degree from Louisiana State University, but the lawsuit the Houston-area resident filed after she was rejected from her State’s flagship university is still going strong. Because she did not qualify for the 80 percent of UT freshman spots reserved for those in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class, Fisher’s college application was subjected to a “holisitic review” that considered a variety of attributes, including leadership ability, socio-economic background, and race. It…
