In case of Bakke verses University of California Regents, Bakke attempted twice to enroll in the University of California Medical School at Davis unsuccessfully. “The school reserved sixteen places in each entering class of one hundred for "qualified" minorities, as part of the university's affirmative action program”(www.plhs.esu3.org). In other words they wouldn’t always take the 100 most qualified people, since 16 students entering the school must be a minority. “Bakke's qualifications exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in

Affirmative action has been challenged once again on college admissions. This time the problem is at the University of Michigan. The problem is the, “Use of affirmative action to increase minority enrollment at its law school”(www.nytimes.com). The question being raised is, “Do race-based preferences in college admissions violate the equal-treatment standard”(The Mercury News). The problem that raises this issue is a scale used to help decide admissions; a controversial part of Michigan's admission policy was a 150-point scale used to grade an applicant's record. African Americans, Latinos or Native Americans automatically received 20 points for their race, which could have raised their grade a full point on a 4.0 scale (CNN.com). This is just one of many ways affirmative action affects Public colleges today.

The ramifications of these acts are still felt today.

At the same time there are several negatives to affirmative action some of these problems are,

In the mid 1960’s President Johnson had several ideas that found there way into the civil rites acts. One idea was affirmative action, he said, “Some form of affirmative action would be needed to help minorities overcome decades of prior discrimination”(www.civnet.org). Affirmative action had it pros and cons like anything. Some of the good things brought to a reality is,

No and yes… Four of the justices contended that any racial quota system supported by government violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., agreed, casting the deciding vote ordering the medical school to admit Bakke. How

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