Conclusion

Amici reject SFFA's efforts to dismantle UNC's race-conscious admissions program, which has increased educational opportunities for diverse North Carolinians, including Asian Americans. UNC appropriately considers context-- including the racial biases inherent in standardized test scores--when evaluating applicants. This does not give an unfair preference to underrepresented minorities. Rather, UNC's race-conscious admissions process is only a small effort to level a playing field that is still stacked against underrepresented minorities. Moreover, neither race nor test scores predominate in UNC's holistic admissions process. Amici also reject SFFA's class-based alternatives to the consideration of race, which will undermine UNC's holistic admissions process, reduce racial diversity, and harm campus climate for everyone, including AAPIs. Amici recognize that these alternatives will harm, rather than benefit the most underrepresented AAPI subgroups in North Carolina and refuse to be used as a weapon to limit opportunities for their African American, Latino, and Native American brothers and sisters.

*44 This the 5th day of March, 2019.