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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should really question what "meritocracy" means in our society. And how do we even judge the markers of meritocracy? Somehow we have to take a student's preparation and circumstances into consideration. (And I'm not necessarily talking about race.) And we should question the whole notion of legacy admissions. There are so many considerations at this point in time. In addition to the issues of very high performance by certain ethnic groups, females are performing better than males, but colleges don't want their numbers to be too skewed in favor of females. So, consideration is being given to male applicants that might be disadvantageous to some female applicants. And as a PP mentioned, colleges do make efforts to have all sorts of diversity, including geographic. Colleges try to create the study body they feel is best for the goals of their institution. A lot of tough and serious issues are involved. It's really hard to know the answer, but I think the idea of merit in our society is very loaded and needs to be looked at closely.[/quote]

The schools should admit at least 63% females to make up for the $0.87/$1 discrepancy of wages based on sex.[/quote]

And then women would flood the traditionally "female" professions such as teaching and nursing, and drive the wages in these professions even lower. Instead, maybe we should focus on making the workplace, especially those in Fortune 500 companies, friendlier to working women. And on attracting more women to STEM professions.[/quote]

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