http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=565381
Contrary to what critics say, the University of Wisconsin campuses will not start taking race into account as a result of a new admissions policy the Board of Regents adopted the other day. The campuses started doing that about 35 years ago.
The new policy merely means that admission officers will take a closer personal look at each student who applies. In the past, outside of UW-Madison, admission was basically by the numbers: scores on the college entrance exam, high school grades, class rank, etc. In other words, a simple computer program could select the students.
The holistic approach treats the applicant as a person, not just a set of numbers. Human judgment beats a computer program for choosing a freshman class.