Reply to Top 10 Universities - Holistic Admissions Fact or Fiction

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Top 10 Universities - Holistic Admissions Fact or Fiction"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote]That may be true, but it is also true that those other qualities might not have been enough to tip the scale if your son had had a different skin color. Doesn't that seem wrong to you?[/quote]

Sonia Sotomayor in her memoir describes dealing with the assumption that she was an affirmative action admit to Princeton and people using that to dismiss her accomplishments.  She talks about saying to someone that she was not on the admissions committee, so she does not know, or have any control over why she was admitted.  However she managed to graduate summa cumme laude, so whether she was an affirmative action candidate or not, does it matter?

I think the keyword in the statement above is [i]might[/i].  In any individual case, since we can't make a white clone of the PP's son, there is no way to know whether or not the other qualities would have tipped the scale had he not been a minority.  I don't see what good suggesting this does--the only thing it serves to do is undermine the PP's son's accomplishments.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics