Lottery only solution

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would people feel about a lottery for college admissions? So for example: everyone with 1500 plus and 4.0 gets a lottery ticket to a top school. That seems to be the only way to solve all the angst. Otherwise things will continue to be legislated.

They would never go for it because demographics are nowhere close to being proportionally represented at that level. It would need to be like 1200 or something and the Asians would still be disproportionately represented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would people feel about a lottery for college admissions? So for example: everyone with 1500 plus and 4.0 gets a lottery ticket to a top school. That seems to be the only way to solve all the angst. Otherwise things will continue to be legislated.

This is often suggested, and it is very very silly.

You are suggesting that colleges don't get to build their class and choose their students, and that students don't get to choose the college they apply to, or at best only get to apply to one.

Worse for the colleges, worse for the student, and somehow that is more "fair"? By pulling names out of a hat?

I suggest you rethink this idea.

If colleges are telling the truth about having multiple qualified applicants for every seat, why should they care?

Because “qualified” is just a baseline. The intangibles matter. Including the demographic makeups of the student body.

This is the irreconcilable dispute. The colleges want racial quotas, and many people find that reprehensible. The colleges believe “diversity” is too important to allow themselves to be bound by the law, so they will break it and try to minimize documentation to reduce litigation risk. I support the court’s decision but believe the colleges will succeed in this, enabled by sympathetic lower courts.