When a university admissions policy focuses on race and ethnic backgrounds as one of the central factors in the decision making process, the university is being “race conscious.” There are two types of race consciousness, one is where there is an individual consideration of race and the other is when the sole consideration for admittance, is the race of the student. In the case Barbara Grutter, Peti

Diversity is valuable in society and in education, to learn about a wider range of people with different racial and ethical backgrounds, but it is not a” compelling” interest when it comes to educational institutions. There is a big difference in saying that diversity is valuable and saying that it is a “compelling” interest. In Barbara Grutter, Petitioner v. Lee Bollinger, et al. The policy stresses that “no applicant should be admitted unless we expect that applicant to do well enough to graduate with no serious academic problem.” Grades are not the only factor admissions takes into consideration, when evaluating each applicant. The institution states that they also asses “an applicants likely contributions to the intellectual and social life of the institution.” When does racial or ethical backgrounds decided if a student will ‘graduate’ with no difficulty or even ‘contribute’ to the social life of an institution. If there is favoritism towards certain minority groups, it gives those minorities a better chance of getting in, than the less favored racial groups.

For it is a lesson of life rather than law—essentially the same lesson taught to (or rather learned by, for it cannot be “taught” in the usual sense) people three feet shorter and twenty years younger than full-grown adults at the University of Michigan Law School, in institutions ranging from Boy Scout troops to public-school kindergartens. If properly considered an “educational benefit” at all, it is surely not one that is either uniquely relevant to law school or uniquely “teachable” in a formal educational setting…

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