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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yea, please be aware that the top schools are not awash in diversity.  5-8% African American is the norm for the top schools.  [/quote] I fully understand that. To me, the main goal isn't balancing a class racially - this isn't a TV commercial or magazine spread. The main goal should be to make sure that kids who get into the school, 'fit' the school and will do well there. Instead the focus is on increasing their own climb up some silly artificial ranking system by messing with how they admit kids.

[b]To me, the worst thing that can happen is admitting a student because they are minority because it increases your rankings, then not supporting those kids, so they are destined to fail, or worse[/b], accepting them, then pushing them through by being soft on grading (or in the case of athletics, making up classes like they did at UNC). What a horrible thing to do to a kid! [/quote]

And why the fuck are you assuming that the kids of color are being accepted only for their race and then can't hack it? And that they need extra support? You really think that these kids can't handle the course load and need hand holding simply because they're minorities? That there are no kids of color who are as smart and capable as the white kids who were admitted alongside them? What the fuck is wrong with you?[/quote]

So you found this thread too, did you? Good Lord, you are tiresome!

Why am I assuming this? I'm not. It's been a problem in the past in universities and colleges. [b]The problem isn't that they are minorities, the problem is some are admitted simply BECAUSE they are minorities, even if their grades and scores show they they should not be[/b].  There are also some minorities that are admitted because their grades and scores show they ARE up to the task and that's as it should be.

When diversity is sought after just for diversity's sake, it is the individual that pays the price. If the problem is there is lack of qualified minorities, college is not the place to try and solve that. By then it's too late. You need to hit it hard at a much lower level.

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Where is your evidence that this happening? [/quote]

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