The AP reported that SCOTUS had agreed to hear the challenge to the status quo, which could result in the biggest change to the legal framework surrounding college admissions - seen as a key gateway to the meritocratic American dream - since 2003, when Grutter v. Bollinger reasserted that universities may take race into account to create a "racially diverse" student body, to the benefit of all students. But the precedents go back decades, all the way to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.