Sometime this month, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the future of affirmative action in college admissions.
A pair of lawsuits brought against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, by advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions, accuse the effort to admit a more diverse class of systemically disadvantaging Asian applicants.
A decision could come anytime between now and June 30, and many legal analysts expect the conservative-majority court will overturn race-conscious admissions practices.
It would be a consequential and disruptive decision that, in my view, would represent a victory for fairness in the application process.
But it would only do part of the job of making college admissions truly fair: The next behemoth that should be tackled is nepotism.