Why Did Barbara Grutter Get Into The Law School

Before the case, there has been a long battle of equality of rights for all. Ever since the beginning with the Revolutionary War, to the desegregation of schools, to Black Lives Matters. Before the Court, Barbra Grutter, felt as if she was at a disadvantage to getting into the school since minorities had a better chance of getting into the Law School. She claimed this was a violation of her Fourteenth Amendment. Barbara Grutter applied to the law school. She graduated from Michigan State University in 1978, with a 3.81 GPA and held off a Law School career to begin a successful health care information firm. Later on the years, she went back to attend law school and was denied. She believes it was because “as with Grutter’s race was ultimately the difference between automatic acceptance and automatic
The system was set to determine if an applicant had a higher chance to be admitted into the school. The reason why Grutter did not get into the Law School was because other ethnicities had a high chance of getting into the school since they would get more points. This lead to “the University violating the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of equal protection by discriminating against Gratz and Grutter” (Gratz v. Bollinger; Grutter v. Bollinger). The Court was also mentioning the point system of adding twenty points to the applicants score wasn’t smart (Summary of Supreme Court). Now since “the Court also held that the Law School’s goal of attaining a critical mass of underrepresented minority students does not transform its program into a quota,” (Summary of Supreme Court) which would have changed the outcome of the case. The majority opinion was “the Court held that the Law School flexible admissions program does not unduly harm members of any racial group, because all applicants have the opportunity to demonstrate how they would contribute to the diversity of the entering class” (Summary of Supreme