California V. Bakke: A Racial Discrimination Case Study

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In 1968, the Medical School of the University of California at Davis established a racial quota, according to the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1999). The university’s admissions office was run under two separate programs: “the regular admissions program and the special admissions program.” Minority students were admitted through the special admissions program and had different requirements to fulfill than the students admitted through the regular admissions program (1999). Through this program many minority students were favored over white students. Because of this unjust treatment between the two groups Allan P. Bakke, a white student who was rejected multiple times because of the racial quota, fought to take the case

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