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Another case of alleged anti-Asian discrimination.

The challengers argue that a policy in Montgomery County's STEM and humanities magnet schools unfairly elevates Black and Latino students for admission in violation of the 14th Amendment. In 2023, the Supreme Court cited the same amendment in striking down the use of race in college admissions. But this case is narrower, asking the justices to decide a more technical question of what evidence challengers need to bring such a claim, so the court is not poised to issue a ruling on the constitutional issue.

Part of their argument is that Asian applicants are harmed because they are ranked against people within their own school, not system-wide. They allege that is a workaround to the prior disallowed race-based and ethnic-based policies because of the clustering of populations within the system.

My son attended one of those and it was really nothing particularly special unless you wanted super-advanced math, partly because the home schools for many of the students have many other similar top students to satisfy.