NYTimes article on diversity in admissions
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| Paywall |
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| Fascinating and the wider net producing a class with both racial and economic diversity is compelling. |
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| One upshot: "rewarding students who are academic outliers given their life circumstances, while targeting a wider pool of recruits — comes the closest to creating the Black and Hispanic student shares you might get by giving a boost directly to those students" |
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| Gorgeous data visualizations. |
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| comments are largely negative. NYT readers have turned the corner on diversity measures, I guess. |
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Agree. Really well done. |
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What are your thoughts? I hate it when people post just a link. |
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| One wonders why colleges didn’t do some of this stuff already, which would have still given them racial diversity AND vastly better economic diversity. |
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NYT subscribers are pretty old now, right? The comments being negative doesn't shock me. Their reader base demos have to be a concern for the NYT. |
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Thanks for sharing. Even if you believe in strict meritocracy, it's hard to argue with their last model (increasing race-concious recruiting and looking for outliers. That's really how you build the most diverse *and* smartest class. Of course, it would require most dcum families to give up their current advantages.
And here's a link that gets around the paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/09/upshot/affirmative-action-alternatives.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU0.DMvX.Rjoft-4pnoqc&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare |
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| Thanks for posting this. Fascinating. |
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Another desperate attempt to gerrymander a class of "racial diversity."
Many state flagships have very generous pipelines for community college students to attend the four-year university. Here's UVAs SCHEV data, which at the bottom has CC transfers. https://research.schev.edu/iprofile.asp?UID=234076 Notice that the degree completion rate is about 80%. So one in five transfer students is saddled with debt and no degree! This is a disasterous result for kids trying to make it at a 4 year college. And such strivers deserve our support. |
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| Isn’t scenario 1 effectively what Brown claimed it’s intent was by reinstating the testing requirements? |