David Gersten of the Center for Equal Opportunity adds that the University of Michigan resorted to its noxious point system because it receives tens of thousands of applications every year–it needed a cold formula because it couldn’t give individual attention to every aspiring student. The law school, by contrast, receives many fewer applications. Unless Michigan hires lots more undergrad admissions officers, it won’t be able to replicate the law school model. I’m no optimist about what’s going to happen in Ann Arbor–I suspect the undergrad admissions won’t change much at all, except now it will be kept invisible. Yet it does suggest that the school–and so many big public universities like it–will be vulnerable to lawsuits in the future. A dim silver lining, perhaps, but a silver lining nonetheless.