Without affirmative action, elite colleges are prioritizing economic diversity in admissions

[Anonymous]

Lot of angry losers who thought SCOTUS was handing Ivy slots to their kids that just can’t make the grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Sometimes it feels like these elite institutions could simply reserve 25% of their spots for low-SES students and leave the remaining 75% for everyone else—without all the extra theatrics—focusing on academics for the sake of academics, rather than acting like exclusive social hubs for the wealthy. Instead, what’s happening now sends a discouraging message: you can work incredibly hard, but if your family is neither poor enough nor rich enough—the situation most students fall into—there’s no place for you. Not poor enough to inspire institutional sympathy, not wealthy enough to offer “network value.” It makes you wonder what the purpose of an elite college even is anymore.

And again, how much do these elitists want to drain the average people's time, money and energy...They work so hard to be exclusive so they can keep the wealthy 1% to themselves, and make sure the rest are poor FOEVER

You sound like you feel that people have a right to seats, but you don’t. Top schools have never been about peak academics and they have every right to admit according to their priorities, not yours.

As long as those priorities don't include race.

If they do, then they should be stripped of their tax exempt status.

Is gender preference okay with you?

[Anonymous]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the country’s most prestigious colleges are enrolling record numbers of low-income students — a growing admissions priority in the absence of affirmative.

https://apnews.com/article/college-admissions-affirmative-action-scholarships-pell-0cdef1e68ccc2c6d743dcd26817e73ee" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://apnews.com/article/college-admissions-affirmative-action-scholarships-pell-0cdef1e68ccc2c6d743dcd26817e73ee

Asians are gonna be big mad about this in 3, 2, 1...

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Anonymous wrote:With AI progressing so quickly, college prestige may matter less and less. People won’t need a degree to prove their abilities. Seeing so many Gen Z job struggles—unemployment, low wages, outsourcing, H-1B competition—makes it feel like our kids are just fighting to survive. It’s hard to know whether a college degree still makes a difference.

Social media and AI were the worst creations in history

Woke and humanities majors are worse.

What is "woke?" Explain it to me like I'm five.

Humanities majors are the future. That's where the jobs and pay are going to be in an AI-powered economy. It's already happening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If they prioritize economic diversity over race black / Hispanic numbers return to pre affirmative action while increasing the Asian numbers to 50%, but the white numbers take a 12% hit, it this happens Blum will say universities are using economics as a proxy for race to discriminate against whites

The reason they never wanted to do income based affirmative action is because the majority of smart poor kids are rural whites. Those are the absolute last group of people that college administrators want to help.

They don't exactly apply to elite colleges (or colleges in general) in droves, you know. Your premise is flawed. There's no one to help in your scenario.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they prioritize economic diversity over race black / Hispanic numbers return to pre affirmative action while increasing the Asian numbers to 50%, but the white numbers take a 12% hit, it this happens Blum will say universities are using economics as a proxy for race to discriminate against whites

The reason they never wanted to do income based affirmative action is because the majority of smart poor kids are rural whites. Those are the absolute last group of people that college administrators want to help.

They don't exactly apply to elite colleges (or colleges in general) in droves, you know. Your premise is flawed. There's no one to help in your scenario.

Actually your premise is the flawed one and it has been well studied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With AI progressing so quickly, college prestige may matter less and less. People won’t need a degree to prove their abilities. Seeing so many Gen Z job struggles—unemployment, low wages, outsourcing, H-1B competition—makes it feel like our kids are just fighting to survive. It’s hard to know whether a college degree still makes a difference.

Social media and AI were the worst creations in history

Woke and humanities majors are worse.

What is "woke?" Explain it to me like I'm five.

Humanities majors are the future. That's where the jobs and pay are going to be in an AI-powered economy. It's already happening.

That’s going to be hard - the average person using woke pejoratively has the intellect of a three year old.

[Anonymous]

There is nothing longer than the list of people that upper middle class white people think cannot possibly be qualified to take the spot owed their precious kid

[Anonymous]

I want to celebrate all the black and brown Ivy admits rolling in!! America’s future leaders!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the country’s most prestigious colleges are enrolling record numbers of low-income students — a growing admissions priority in the absence of affirmative.

https://apnews.com/article/college-admissions-affirmative-action-scholarships-pell-0cdef1e68ccc2c6d743dcd26817e73ee" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://apnews.com/article/college-admissions-affirmative-action-scholarships-pell-0cdef1e68ccc2c6d743dcd26817e73ee

Asians are gonna be big mad about this in 3, 2, 1...

I kind of wish people stop lumping Asians in one giant group. I think you intended point out one or two giant grinding groups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing longer than the list of people that upper middle class white people think cannot possibly be qualified to take the spot owed their precious kid

Not white. But otherwise resemble this remark. I do think my kid is pretty awesome and will be annoyed when the rejections roll in. I think most parents will rationalize stuff about their own kids and will be their biggest boosters. It’s all good. We need kids to have the grounding from their parents. I wish all kids could experience love, a healthy family life, and financial stability.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With AI progressing so quickly, college prestige may matter less and less. People won’t need a degree to prove their abilities. Seeing so many Gen Z job struggles—unemployment, low wages, outsourcing, H-1B competition—makes it feel like our kids are just fighting to survive. It’s hard to know whether a college degree still makes a difference.

Social media and AI were the worst creations in history

Woke and humanities majors are worse.

What is "woke?" Explain it to me like I'm five.

Humanities majors . . .

This video explains everything you need to know about it:

[youtube] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MnppSFggY80[/youtube]

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With AI progressing so quickly, college prestige may matter less and less. People won’t need a degree to prove their abilities. Seeing so many Gen Z job struggles—unemployment, low wages, outsourcing, H-1B competition—makes it feel like our kids are just fighting to survive. It’s hard to know whether a college degree still makes a difference.

Uh no. Top colleges will always matter

[Anonymous]

when someone claims they need H1B for Doctors, remember this ....

They Passed Over American Doctors

The biggest lie in the U.S. healthcare debate is that we do not have enough American doctors. The truth is simple. We produce them. We just refuse to train them.

In 2024 nearly 20 percent of U.S. medical school seniors failed to match into a residency. That is 8,869 qualified graduates who spent years in school, passed their boards, took on massive debt, and still never got the one thing they need to practice medicine.

At the same time more than 9,700 foreign trained doctors matched into U.S. residencies in 2025. Many hospitals prefer them because they accept lower pay, longer hours, and have no leverage to complain. You cannot practice medicine in the United States without residency. So if Americans are locked out, someone else will fill the spot.

The choke point is not medical school. It is the federally funded residency cap. Congress has not increased these slots fast enough while medical school enrollment has exploded. The result is a rigged bottleneck that leaves American doctors unmatched while taxpayer dollars train replacements from overseas.

The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 would add 14,000 residency slots over seven years. Even that will not undo years of damage, but it is proof that Washington knows the system is broken.

Until Congress expands residency slots at the scale required, the United States will keep graduating qualified doctors who never get to practice. Then hospitals will turn around and say there is a physician shortage and use it as an excuse to import more foreign labor.

It is not a shortage. It is policy.

Citations
• AMA, Biggest Match Day Ever, 2025 data
• AAMC, Medical School Enrollment Growth vs Residency Bottleneck
• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, IMG Match Statistics 2025
• Norton Rose Fulbright, Congressional Inquiry into Residency Accreditation and Matching Practices
• People Magazine, U.S. Graduate Denied Residency, 2024