We're All Losers After the Supreme Court's Decision in Schuette

Applicants to schools in Michigan who believed that they should be able to ask schools to consider race as one factor in their admission lost.

Even though other students that had alumni parents or grandparents or relatives that made large donations to the school can continue to argue that family giving should be considered in the admissions policy.

Potential students who hail from Buford, Wyoming, or other geographically isolated locations will likewise continue to have the opportunity to say that factor should be considered for admission to Michigan universities.

University officials who, following the instruction of the Supreme Court, decided that diversity served important educational interests and put together carefully crafted programs to ensure diversity existed lost.

Students who valued the opportunity to learn in the rich educational environment created by real diversity and sought to be prepared to live in a diverse business and social world lost.

Citizens who believed that educational institutions should reflect the diversity of their state and prepare all of its citizens to assume leadership roles in their state lost.

And, in a very real sense, everyone, including those of us outside of Michigan, lost as the Supreme Court placed one more obstacle in the path of people seeking, as Justice Sotomayor so movingly put it, "to participate meaningfully and equally in self-government."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2550113&forum_id=2#25433294)