It also accuses the city of fostering an unequal system, where charter-school students get preferential use of the buildings' common spaces, like auditoriums, cafeterias and gyms.
The Chicago Tribune has identified "about one-quarter of the 800 students who got preferential treatment from 2005 to 2009," the newspaper reported.
The conservative justices, sympathetic to Ms. Fisher's case, expressed particular concern that affluent black students were receiving preferential treatment.
Other early implementers of affirmative-action programs who have analyzed admission exams, grades and drop-out rates of students in the preferential categories have found little difference between the performance of that group and that of the other students.
The navigational paths of 11 students reveal a preferential activity on Reception modules.
Greek students enjoy some preferential treatment by the government, including lower fees for almost all public services and tax breaks for their families.
I often wonder how wealthy students admitted under preferential policies must feel about themselves and their putative accomplishments.
Some business schools also operate lending schemes with preferential rates for students.
Binghamton dismissed a longtime instructor who had accused the athletic department of pressuring her to show preferential treatment to students from the school's notoriously troubled basketball team.
In the early 2000s, four of Israel's most selective universities began giving preferential treatment to poorer students, as indicated by an applicant's neighbourhood and high school.
