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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

US Supreme court rules against affirmative action in college admissions

The US Supreme Court has struck down the practice of considering an applicant’s race during university admissions, reversing decades of policy that benefitted ethnic minority students.

The court’s conservative majority overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC), the nation's oldest private and public colleges, respectively.

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