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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could someone please answer this question:

Why are some of you so outraged about ending DEI and think it will be the end of diversity?  Don't you believe diverse populations will be admitted on their merit?  Your objections seem to make it clear you *don't* believe this to be true.  I find that so curious.  You're actually saying that you don't think diverse/minority populations could possibly get in on their own merit, and that adcoms would need to know what race they are to make up for that.  Bizarre.[/quote]

Merit isn’t real. Merit is just laundered white wealthy mostly male privilege. [/quote]

This. I work with pro bono students and students who pay. I know a student who used an expensive counselor, and that office essentially constructed the student's essay in a way that seems deep and insightful, but it was clearly the counselor. I am all for helping brainstorm, but this was really paid merit. Think about the extent that families with wealth can test prep and take multiple standardized tests to get that top score. Or pay for tutors. The people who advocate for "merit" are often the ones rigging the system by buying "heavy editing" (eg writing) or tons of test prep or research connections or academic enrichment.

I worked with a kid that had a few bad grades because the turmoil at home was so hard, since a parent didn't accept them for who they were (LGBTQ), and a kid who didn't have the test scores because she was translating for her parents and assisting her special needs brother while educating her parents on her brother's needs, another who lives further away from school and doesn't have transportation to do special clubs or outside ECs, kids who are trying to keep head above water with a parent in jail that may not have the top grades but have incredible insight, and a kid who can't even meet with me yet because of issues at home, but she still finds time to help others. THESE kids merit. But, AOs need to look holistically and consider DEI to see that. They will all enrich their college campuses greatly with their intelligence, commitment, compassion and perspective.

It is so disingenuous for this administration to label DEI the devil and clearly a tool to advance Stephen Miller's white supremacist agenda. We should all reread Animal Farm and 1984. So much Newspeak.[/quote]

Why is the LGBTQ kid more worthy of a spot than the kid that is wealthy? Wealthy kids can also enrich college campuses with their intelligence, commitment, compassion and perspective. Many angry posters on DCUM assume that being rich automatically means you are not smart, not dedicated, not compassionate and lack perspective. Wake up. Many, many wealthy kids are all of these things and enrich their college campuses. Get a little perspective. [/quote]

DP. Why are you assuming the LGBTQ kid in PP’s story isn’t wealthy?[/quote]

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