I can remember back in 2010 I was another board/forum (
It was actually a boxing forum...yeah I'm into my boxing) and the white supremacists (
yes even though they admired black boxers the forum was full of white supremacists and other non blks who were anti black) were hanging there hat on this Fischer. So I decided to look into it and the fact is....
Race had nothing to do with the University of Texas's decision to deny admission to Abigail Fisher.
In 2008, the year Fisher sent in her application, competition to get into Texas university was stiff. Students entering through the university's Top 10 program (
a mechanism that granted automatic admission to any teen who graduated in the upper 10 percent of his or her high school class) claimed around 92% of the spots
Fisher failed to graduate in the top 10 percent of her class, meaning she had to compete for the limited number of spaces up for grabs.
So she and others who did not make the cut were chose based on two scores
1. Grades and test scores.
2. A personal achievement index, awarded points for two essays, leadership, activities, service and "
special circumstances."
Those included socioeconomic status of the student or the student's school, coming from a home with a single parent or one where English wasn't spoken.
Those two scores, combined, determine admission.
Even among those students, Fisher was garbage
Court records showed her grade point average (
3.59) and SAT scores (
1180 out of 1600) were good but not great for a university that was very selective.
Just to show how selective the university of Texas was,
the school's rejection rate that year for the remaining 841 openings was higher than the turn-down rate for students trying to get into Harvard.
It's true that the university (
for whatever reason) offered provisional admission to some students with lower test scores and grades than Fisher. So Yes
Lisa558 is correct on that but what she doesn't tell you is that five of those students were black or Latino and 42 were white
Fisher didn't mention those 42 applicants in interviews.
Nor did she acknowledge the 168 black and Latino students with grades as good as or better than Fisher's who were also denied entry into the university that year.
Also left unsaid is the fact that Fisher turned down a standard UT offer under which she could have gone to the university her sophomore year if she earned a 3.2 GPA at another Texas university school in her freshman year.