In its important 7-1 ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas last year, The Supreme Court vacated the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision upholding the University of Texas’ program of racial preferences in admissions and ordered the court of appeals to reconsider the issue. Although the Court reaffirmed the view that the educational benefits of “diversity” are a “compelling” state interest that might justify the use of racial preferences in some cases, it also emphasized that courts must consider whether such preferences are “narrowly tailored” to achieving their educational goals without giving the university’s judgment on the issue any “deference” at all. This was an important gain for opponents of racial preferences, since the Court’s previous ruling on this issue, Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), gave university administrators great deference on the issue.