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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that the focus on race is outdated, if anything it should be that kids who come from less means; rural poverty, inner city low income situations get a bump in admissions if they have stats that would otherwise put them in the bottom 25 percent of typical admits. That is what will bring real diversity to campuses. A poor white kid from appalachia who worked their butt off in school brings more diversity of life experience than a black kid who went to GDS, vacations on Martha's Vineyard and is full pay. 
Racial diversity was very much needed 20 years ago on college campuses but now they need to focus on economic diversity. The colleges will continue to admit a variety of racial groups because there are thousands "URM" who will still get in without their race being considered. They have the merits. [/quote]

UC system in the 1990s tried the "economic diversity" approach [b]hoping that they'd increase the number of blacks and Hispanics[/b] but what they got were a lot of Eastern Europeans and Vietnamese. As that wasn't the kind of "diversity" they were looking for, they dropped it.[/quote]
 Well what's wrong with Eastern Europeans and Vietnamese? The whole point of what I was saying is that you admit without trying to engineer the racial result and only admit those who have the merit to attend, but give a bump to those who come from low income situations. The sad issue is that there are populations of Blacks and Hispanics in S. CA that don't have good public school systems from preschool-HS. That needs to be fixed but those kids should not get into UCLA because of their race above an eastern european or a low income white kid from bakersfield who is actually prepared academically to go to that UC.
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