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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]. . .

TL/DR the obsession with social engineering and the guidelines for it have gone completely overboard and aren't doing what they are meant to do.[/quote]

Exactly, and I agree with you.  We need to abandon DEI and DEIA entirely, even if these concepts might sound nice on paper.  Like many well-intentioned philosophies, DEI ultimately is divisive and ends up harming everyone; especially the folks we intend to help. [/quote]

All things being equal the I would take a kid who is truly a minority and/or from a less privileged background (i.e. not the kid of Ivy alum minority Goldman/Wachtell partners who is at Dalton/Trinity/Horace Mann/Exeter). And within reason, schools should be making some effort to reach out to kids who might not normally have had the school on their radar - they don't need countless people canvassing the streets. But it should be a tie breaker and not obsessively tracked by the schools and other entities.

That being said, the obsessive hatred of DEI by Trump and his people is also not healthy. It is not destroying the world. It is not a justification for not funding otherwise upstanding universities and programs. Unfortunately, his followers are too simplistic and too insistent on blaming others for their problems to make that connection.[/quote]

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