We have to be fair also to the white applicants.

Yet a white applicant with the same qualifications is hired.

The policy in question, which created separate ranking systems for white and minority applicants, had already been dropped by the university.

Affirmative-action programs may also be challenged by people other than disappointed white applicants.

The other black students Texas admitted got in under a standard different from that of white applicants.

But when the school announced its location in a black neighborhood, all but two white applicants dropped out of the process.

"Are there white applicants who were not admitted who would have gotten in if they had been black?"

The four rejected white applicants who brought the suit have appealed.

That case, too, had been brought by a white applicant who was rejected.

Among white applicants, the rejection rate was 13 percent.