Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) is an organization headed by Edward Blum that represented over 20,000 students and parents who allege they have been rejected by selective universities due to their races, and file lawsuits on their behalf. It has been described as an anti- affirmative action group who objects using race as one of the factors in college admissions.Ko, Lisa, "Opinions: the Myth of the Interchangeable Asian," ''The New York Times,'' October 14, 2018

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An offshoot of the Project on Fair Representation, Blum has targeted

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s called harvardnotfair.org, uncnotfair.org, and uwnotfair.org to attract plaintiffs. Students for Fair Admissions, led by Blum, filed federal lawsuits against Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill in November 2014. (SFFA has not sued UW-Madison thus far.) Those cases are still pending in federal district court. Unlike the ''Fisher'' case, in which the plaintiff,

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, made herself public, the students rejected by Harvard and UNC have not revealed their identities because they want to shield themselves from potential retaliation. The case, '' Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College'', has been taken to federal court and has garnered news coverage from major media outlets. The Harvard lawsuit was dismissed in October 2019, and that ruling was subsequently upheld on appeal. In February 2021, SFFA petitioned the

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to review the case.Students for Fair Admissions Petitions SCOTUS to Take Up Suit Against Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions
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, alleging the school’s admissions policies discriminate against Asian-American and white applicants.

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