Becky With the Bad Grades: Supreme Rules Against Abigail Fisher
Channel: WhatsThe411TV
Date: 09/07/2016

Segment recorded on June 28, 2016  --Surprisingly, with the help of conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of the University of Texas at Austin's affirmative action plan and against Abigail Fisher's complaint. It turns out Ms. Fisher did not have overwhelmingly better grades than those that were accepted.

Fisher claimed she didn’t get in the school while African-American students with lower grades and test scores were admitted- except she didn’t graduate in the top 10% of her high school class and wouldn’t have been admitted either way, thanks to her mediocre grades.

And of the 47 students that were admitted with grades lower than hers, 42 of them were white. Additionally, according to Pro Publica, 168 black and Latino applicants who had better grades than Fisher were also turned down from the University of Texas at Austin.

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