Running head: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
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Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
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F i s h e r v . U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s a t A u s ti n
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Introduction and Background
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Texas legislature during the year 1997 enacted a law which required the University of Texas
to provide a guideline and to carry out the mandate of admitting the top ten percent of all
ranked high school seniors in their classes. The University of Texas, however, decided to
modify the policy of race-neutral after discovering the difference between the ethnical and
racial makeup associated with the state population and the university undergraduate
population. The new policy provided a guideline of admitting the high school seniors who
were ranked top ten in their respective classes. The university, in this case, would consider
the race as a factor in the admission of all undergraduate freshmen.
Abigail N. Fisher who was a Caucasian female, in the year 2008 applied for an undergraduate
program at the University of Texas. She was not among the seniors in her class who were
