Abigail Fisher from Sugarland, TX, did not get admitted to University of Texas, Austin despite having a 3.59/4 GPA. She dreamed of bleeding burnt orange since she was a tiny tot, especially since both her dad and sis bled burnt orange as well.
UT automatically accepts the top 10 percent from any high school if they apply for admission and Abigail was not in the top 10 percent. Beyond the top 10%, the University applies several conditions on who it will admit, including racial mix. UT rejected Abigail's admission and she filed suit against UT for racial discrimination.
She finally landed at Louisiana State University, where she graduated, enjoying her undergraduate years with no perceivable misgivings and got back to Austin to work as a financial analyst.
And that's when she thought, hmm...maybe I could have landed a better job if I had been a UT grad and leveraged the network of UT grads. So she sued against UT's affirmative action policy, a case that came up today in front of the Supreme Court.
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