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A Brief Case Of Regents Of The University Of California V. Bakke

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In the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Allan Bakke a white male was rejected from regular admissions into California University. He was rejected twice; meanwhile, minority students with lower grade point averages were being admitted into the same school under a special admissions program. After his second rejection, Allan Bakke was very upset, so he filed a law suit to the Superior Court of Yolo County, California. He wanted the chance to be admitted into medical school through the special admissions program. The University said that their admissions program was important and it ought to be kept in the University. They said it helped with the issue of discrimination. In the past, minors were not admitted into medical …show more content…

He did not understand why he was not being admitted into the University while blacks, Asians, and other minorities were being excepted when they were plainly just not as smart as Allan. The lower court ruled that the special admissions program violated the state and federal constitutions and was illegal. Race should not be a deciding factor in the admissions process. But the lower court also ruled that Allan Bakke should not be admitted into the University of California because he failed regular admissions. Then the lower courts appealed the case to the Supreme Court. When the case was brought to the Supreme Court, the judges listened to both sides of the case. The Supreme Court judges with a vote of six to one decided that the special admissions program should be taken away and the Bakke should be admitted into medical school at the …show more content…

The University says that the special admissions program is for those minorities who aren’t smart enough to get in through the regular admissions. If they aren’t smart enough to get in through regular admissions, they should not be let into the school. We don’t want a black doctor to be a worse doctor than a white doctor just to have ethnic diversity in the medical fields. The lawyers also said that they have this special admissions program so that the medical world isn’t only made up of white doctors. But they said that minorities can make it into the school through regular admissions, so why would it be only white doctors? Our country should have only the best doctors, not just okay ones. I’m not saying that minority doctors will not be as good as white doctors, but there is always the chance because they didn’t get in through regular

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