Read the following excerpt from the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and answer the question below.
...University of California at Davis... had two admissions programs for the entering class.... Under the regular procedure, candidates whose overall
undergraduate grade point averages fell below 2.5 on a scale of 4.0 were summarily rejected.... If an applicant of a minority group was found to be
"disadvantaged," he... did not have to meet the 2.5 grade point cutoff....
-Source: Cornell University
What was the effect of the Supreme Court's decision that this policy was unconstitutional?
Limitations were placed on affirmative action policies.