2016-2020
Day 96 2016: University of Texas White Student Sues School Because She Didn’t Get In, and of Course Blames Black People Abigail Fisher had a dream: To attend the University of Texas. Sadly, she didn’t get in. Rather than recognizing that her grades really weren’t very good, she decided to blame Affirmative Action- suing the university by saying that the university admitted students of color who were less qualified than her and she was therefore being discriminated against. The University of Texas admits 19,482 freshmen every year out of about 50,575 applicants. Of those numbers, there were 47 students admitted who had lesser credentials than Fisher (so, she obviously wasn’t super qualified to begin with if she was number 48 from the bottom. Her grades were OK, not great, and her SAT score was only 1100). Of the 47, 42 of them were white. Yes, you read that correctly- 42 were white. 5 were black or Latino. Also, there were 168 black or latino students who scored HIGHER than Fisher...