Abigail Fisher Case Summary

In 1997, the Texas legislature enacted a law requiring all public universities in Texas to admit all high school seniors who ranked in the top ten percent of their high school’s graduating class. The University of Texas at Austin, after finding disparities between the racial and ethnic makeup of the university's undergraduate population and the state's population, decided to modify its race-neutral admissions policy. The new policy continued to admit all in-state students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school classes, however, for the remainder of the in-state freshman class the university would consider race as a factor for admissions into the university.
The plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, a white female, applied for undergraduate admission to the University of Texas in 2008. Fisher was not in the top ten percent of her high school’s graduating class in Sugarland, Texas, so she competed for admission with other non-top ten percent in-state applicants. Fisher was denied admissions into The University of Texas at Austin.
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Also taking into consideration of both perspectives of the Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin case, although in some ways she may have been an ideal candidate for admissions at The University of Texas in terms of extracurricular activities, however, her academic standing did not match the profile of the nationally rank public university. Therefore there is no proof that she was denied admissions due to her race. In fact, if you take a look at UT-Austin’s student profile for the fall of 2008, the White-Non-Hispanic enrollment rate was found to be 54.7%. As shown, the majority of the students enrolled in the university at the time of Fisher’s admissions were white, completely discounting her