Grutter would have been decided differently w Alito in place of O'Conner. It's only a matter of time.
I was just surprised the Michigan lawyers could keep a straight face while saying race only constituted a small fraction of the "total applicant" after the other side brought the stats out and showed that 90% of blacks with a 155-160 were accepted (less than 1% of whites were accepted with this score) and you had to go to 173 to find a score where 90% of whites were accepted.
Small, marginal boost indeed.