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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do private colleges are now accountable and private schools not? Are they sacred cows?. What is the legal basis to treat two private entities differently? Is it ok to be race neutral in college admissions and not neutral in school admissions ?

Troll if you want but it will say a lot if you don’t provide a logical argument. [/quote]

This might be news to you, but private entities that do not receive any govt funds, can discriminate all day long. Maybe they won’t do it because it’s not great PR but it certainly ain’t illegal. [/quote]

Otherwise, all-boys and all-girls schools would also not be legal.[/quote]

Your example is like saying that there are bathrooms for men and women, and hence you cannot complain about a man getting into a women’s bathroom. I agree with yet polciy.

Now more specifically, I also agree with all boys and girls schools. The advantage of the admission process in those schools is that it’s spelled out very explicitly the type of kids they admit; boy or girls plus additional characteristics. That’s very positive.

Now for co-ed school it would be nice to spell out very explicitly what is the criteria for admiission. Not mentioning here a formula or tests scores like many people interpret.

The underlying issue here is that the admission commute is trying to admit a portfolio of people with specific characteristics: wealth, talent, race, and gender. And the criteria is not fully disclosed. Many people are left out what was missing.

I would find more palatable a school that explicitly says that they admit rich families because we want mega donors.

Nothing against that. It’s just somehow that they do it but somehow pretend to be inclusive schools.

Don’t want to be too political. But I find similar to Trump that proposed tax cuts saying that  they will benefit their base. There is some disconnect between the announced policies and the actual objectives. 
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