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Supreme Court upholds college affirmative action program

ACP weighed in on this issue via an amicus brief with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and 31 other organizations, urging the Court to uphold considerations of race and ethnicity in the medical school admissions process.


The Supreme Court of the United States recently ruled in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin that the University of Texas's program admitting some students based on consideration of race is constitutional, but the university must continue to reassess that policy and show that other means of addressing diversity have failed.

ACP weighed in on this issue via an amicus brief with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and 31 other organizations, urging the Court to uphold considerations of race and ethnicity in the medical school admissions process. ACP supports the Court-upheld policies that allow institutions of higher education to consider a person's race and ethnicity as a factor in determining admission, in order to counter the impact of current discriminatory practices and the legacy of past discrimination practices.