Isn’t scenario 1 effectively what Brown claimed it’s intent was by reinstating the testing requirements?

Another desperate attempt to gerrymander a class of "racial diversity."

Many state flagships have very generous pipelines for community college students to attend the four-year university. Here's UVAs SCHEV data, which at the bottom has CC transfers.

https://research.schev.edu/iprofile.asp?UID=234076

Notice that the degree completion rate is about 80%. So one in five transfer students is saddled with debt and no degree! This is a disasterous result for kids trying to make it at a 4 year college. And such strivers deserve our support.

Thanks for posting this. Fascinating.

Thanks for sharing. Even if you believe in strict meritocracy, it's hard to argue with their last model (increasing race-concious recruiting and looking for outliers. That's really how you build the most diverse *and* smartest class. Of course, it would require most dcum families to give up their current advantages.

And here's a link that gets around the paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/09/upshot/affirmative-action-alternatives.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU0.DMvX.Rjoft-4pnoqc&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Anonymous wrote:comments are largely negative. NYT readers have turned the corner on diversity measures, I guess.

NYT subscribers are pretty old now, right? The comments being negative doesn't shock me. Their reader base demos have to be a concern for the NYT.

One wonders why colleges didn’t do some of this stuff already, which would have still given them racial diversity AND vastly better economic diversity.

Anonymous wrote:Thoughts?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/09/upshot/affirmative-action-alternatives.html

What are your thoughts? I hate it when people post just a link.

Anonymous wrote:Gorgeous data visualizations.

Agree. Really well done.

comments are largely negative. NYT readers have turned the corner on diversity measures, I guess.

Gorgeous data visualizations.

One upshot: "rewarding students who are academic outliers given their life circumstances, while targeting a wider pool of recruits — comes the closest to creating the Black and Hispanic student shares you might get by giving a boost directly to those students"

Fascinating and the wider net producing a class with both racial and economic diversity is compelling.

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Thoughts?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/09/upshot/affirmative-action-alternatives.html