Professor Barry McDonald Interviewed on "Legal Docket: The End of Affirmative Action" -- World Radio

Professor Barry P. McDonald is interviewed on the World Radio program "Legal Docket: The End of Affirmative Action." Professor McDonald comments on the new era of college admissions as the Supreme Court calls for race-neutral policies rooted in equal protection.

Excerpt from "Legal Docket: The End of Affirmative Action"

Barry McDonald is a constitutional law expert and professor at Pepperdine University law school. He says the essay exception could open the door to more racial gamesmanship.

MCDONALD: So it’s just really messy how this is going to work. …

Counselors are going to tell prospective applicants to just write essays talking about their racial and ethnic experiences and how they attempted to overcome that. So I think there’s going to be a lot of litigation about this where you’re probably going to have plaintiffs coming in and saying that university was putting way too much weight on life experiences and not enough on raw academic indicators.

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