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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Which is great! Things would be even better if colleges expanded their classes. Unless you’re in a land locked area of real estate (Columbia, Pomona, NYU) there’s no good reason they can’t make the average class bigger and higher profs to keep the student faculty ratio.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

Social media and AI were the worst creations in history

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

State colleges and HBCU do a better job at educating low income and lower middle clad Americans than elite colleges

Wouldn’t that create a new stigma, where it’s income DEI instead of race

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

State colleges and HBCU do a better job at educating low income and lower middle clad Americans than elite colleges

Wouldn’t that create a new stigma, where it’s income DEI instead of race

Class (correction)

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

The way white people use woke needs to stop, just go back to social justice warrior, because woke actually means to be aware of the deep state and the tricks that they play, sounds alot like maga , doesn't it

[Anonymous]

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.

Spoken like a maga minion misled by social media.

[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.

The way white people use woke needs to stop, just go back to social justice warrior, because woke actually means to be aware of the deep state and the tricks that they play, sounds alot like maga , doesn't it

Yep, Woke was a term coined in response to Cointelpro, with was a federal government program that spied, infiltrated, and disrupted civil rights organizations and leaders, not because you see a mixed black girl in a movie in 2025

[Anonymous]

US News started prioritizing Pell. It started before the SCOTUS decision about affirmative action.

[Anonymous]

Affirmative Action is alive and well. This article is daft. It is called “context.” Reframed race…….

[Anonymous]

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

That’s fantastic; that’s what any sort of affirmative action should always have been targeted at.