SFFA bars explicit race-based preferences but allows universities to consider essays describing how race affected an applicant. The piece argues this invites a 'newfangled essay-based regime' where schools prompt 'racial woe' narratives, continuing de facto preferences under a different name.
— It spotlights a key enforcement and design challenge for post‑SFFA admissions that will shape litigation, compliance, and equity debates nationwide.
Daniel Kodsi
2025.10.15
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Driver’s claim (quoted via Roberts’s opinion) that SFFA leaves room to factor 'how race affected' applicants, which universities will exploit through essay prompts.
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