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[quote=Anonymous]I am concerned about social instability if we dispose of affirmative action and do not immediately put another social elevator in its place.

I would rather increase enrollment competitive universities than take away the real or perceived social elevator spots.  As much as upper middle class would like to fill more of their children into the hallowed halls of Harvard, we need to collectively think back to BLM riots and leave well enough alone.

It goes without saying that any thinking person recognizes that the affirmative action, as practiced today in college admissions, if a farce and a mockery of a true social elevator.  However, if you suddenly remove that boost from your minority students, none of them will raise to the challenge of competing with white and Asian students... Not because minority students are incapable, but because they never had to compete at that level.  They still live in the world where good grades are enough for an Ivy.

It would be better for the country long-term if we replaced race-based affirmative action with some other metric that has a more direct correlation with SEC.. but short-term, I shudder to think what will happen.[/quote]

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