A) This is not what affirmative action "says" B) Holistic admission accounts for more than just grades and GPA because schools want interesting, dynamic, students who aren't just book smart - regardless of race. I know I am glad the school I went to looked at more than just grades and test scores. C) Kids drop out of schools for all sorts of reasons but not one of them is affirmative action. You are spewing nonsense. In fact, if schools also focused on supporting kids once they were admitted and not exposing them to the kind of prejudiced views you hold, they might feel more included in the college community. |
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if people don't think action like this doesn't put pressure on schools - look at the trend at Harvard over the last decade. the class of 2021 has the highest % of asians ever at 21-22%
Harvard would've never gotten to that level (ivy league hovered around a cap of 18% for a while) without so much heat. DOJ inquiries into HYPSM and especially the lower tier schools (duke, hopkins etc) will serve to add a lot of pressure to those administrations |
She is not spewing nonsense. Affirmative action needs to end because it is an institutionalized form of racism and no longer needed. |
Please explain why it is no longer needed. |
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Here's the thing. Studies have been done on what would happen if we got rid of affirmative action for universities. And in California state colleges are no longer allowed to consider race in admissions.
The only race it benefits are Asians. For white people it's a wash. |
the principle is wrong no matter who does or doesn't benefit. we are quickly devolving into a country where nothing matters except for which 'clan' is 'winning' or not. this is akin to the muslim world. |
+ 1 Students admitted under affirmative action policies graduate at much lower rates. Why this should surprise anyone is odd. After all, they were admitted with lower grades and scores that would have put them in the reject pile if they were white, Asian, or Jewish. This very reliable source says that the lowest completion rate, defined at graduating four years from when one started a specific institution, is lowest among black males (40%) and highest among Asian females (75%). it's a fair argument as to whether we continue to "owe" blacks preferential treatment (and if so, for how many more generations), but AA is a costly policy, admitting students who are less likely to graduate and denying students more likely to graduate. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/04/26/college-completion-rates-vary-race-and-ethnicity-report-finds |
It's about opportunity and diversity. Universities use holistic admission practices, not "affirmative action" anyways. That's why they are going to win. |
More nonsense. Affirmative action doesn't set a quota for African American kids - or other minorities or women, for that matter. It takes race into account among many other factors. So no one is "kept out" because "too many" African American kids got in. Moreover, the reasons that kids don't graduate are complex and have little to do with aptitude (your racism is showing). Not in the mood to educate you on the factors behind drop out rates for minority college students, but please do some research with reputable sources before weighing in. Thanks for playing. |
DP. I'm not saying whether it is still needed or not, but we do need to come up with a time frame. It cannot be "until blacks are as successful as whites." We have had AA in place for two generations, and that really should have been enough. My grandparents arrived here with 8th grade educations, and their children all completed college. That's a single generation! One more generation, and all but two cousins have grad degrees. That's two generations! (We're Jewish.) |
Are you claiming there are hoards of white high school students who don't get into college at all because of AA? So they end up not getting a college education? Seems to me that is an applicant can't even get into a single college perhaps he wasn't ready for higher education. |
And thanks for playing the race card again, as usual, and calling someone who believes in color-blind admissions a racist. And we know that race is only one factor. We are saying it should not be a factor at all. If you claim that blacks come from poorer, uneducated backgrounds and should b given a chance, fine. But base it on SES, not race. And just because you don't like the facts is no reason to call my source disreputable. Higher Ed is one of the most respected publications in the field. |
No, but a black applicant admitted to a top-tier school under lower standards, where the white student is rejected, is definitely costing that white student a slot. Now you can argue that the white student can go to a 2nd-tier school, but I am saying why should the black kid get to go to the better school and the white kid to a lesser school despite the fact that the white kid had higher grades and scores? Patently unfair and racist. |
What's all this holistic approach anyway? Just a way to get around the SCOTUS ruling and still give preferential treatment to blacks. |
Or you could say that the white, black, and Hispanic kids are taking away admissions slots for Asian Americans.... |