Yup ... I was outside the Supreme Court that day, actually. :)

Gratz makes clear that point systems are illegal, which was my claim. I never claimed that affirmative action or race considerations are illegal, writ large.

The original claim was "They said they didn't lower the "academic" criteria- i.e. test scores and GPA- for minority students."

Grutter said that they could use race to decide admit certain folks according to different criteria than they use for other folks.