A Virginia-based advocacy group that opposes race-conscious admissions charges that the University of Michigan has increased the amount of consideration it gives to the race and ethnicity of undergraduate applicants since 2003, when the Supreme Court struck down the admissions policy previously used by U-M's chief undergraduate program. The Center for Equal opportunity also alleges that the university's law and medical schools continue to favor black and Hispanic applicants heavily. A U-M spokesperson responded that the center's key findings are "flawed and shallow." According to the article in the Chronicle, the center's report on undergraduate admissions is based on data that the Michigan Association of Scholars obtained from the university through the state's open-records law.