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Here's the best argument I've heard for not allowing lower academic performing students into elite university programs. This is a real life example from someone who taught at Cornell University.
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Despite much media spin, the issue is not whether blacks in general should be admitted to higher ranked or lower ranked institutions. The issue is whether a given black student, with given academic qualifications, should be admitted to a college or university where he would not be admitted if he were white.
Much empirical research over the years has confirmed Justice Scalia's concern that admitting black students to institutions for which their academic preparation is not sufficient can be making them worse off instead of better off.
I became painfully aware of this problem more than 40 years ago, when I was teaching at Cornell University, and discovered that half the black students there were on some form of academic probation.
These students were not stupid or uneducable. On the contrary, the average black student at Cornell at that time scored at the 75th percentile on scholastic tests. Their academic qualifications were better than those of three-quarters of all American students who took those tests.
Why were they in trouble at Cornell, then? Because the average Cornell student in the liberal arts college at that time scored at the 99th percentile. The classes taught there — including mine — moved at a speed geared to the verbal and mathematical level of the top one percent of American students.
The average white student would have been wiped out at Cornell. But the average white student was unlikely to be admitted to Cornell, in the first place. Nor was a white student who scored at the 75th percentile.
That was a "favor" reserved for black students. This "favor" turned black students who would have been successful at most American colleges and universities into failures at Cornell.
Government programs turning future successes into failures. But they meant well and their hearts were in the right place. Too many government help programs look good on paper but fail to deliver the promised results.
I'm reading the opinion, but still curious how the Supreme Court justified ruling against Harvard on 14th Amendment (vice Title VI) grounds as the 14th Amendment prohibits certain government action. Harvard, as a private organization, is not the government.
Harvard like nearly every other college/university in USA takes federal funding (student financial aid). When you take the king's coin you must sing the king's tune.
This applies up and down from housing to healthcare and so forth. Hospitals were integrated once Medicare and later Medicaid were created. There isn't a hospital/medical center in USA that can survive without one or both so there you are. Obama used same laws to stamp out discrimination against LGBT in healthcare/hospitals. He also did it (and Biden is expanding upon) in education as again nearly every primary and secondary pubic school in this country receives federal funding.
If you will recall the Boy Scouts of USA were given a green light by SCOTUS to discriminate against LGBT because they truly are a private entity, no federal money involved.
Not considering race doesn't mean that schools have to consider academic merit, alone. I suspect that things like extracurricular activities, etc., will still play an important role in admissions.
Essays will now play the biggest part in allowing higher ed to continue race based discrimination.
The Ivy League will now become the Asian League schools as blacks, hispanics and yes, whites too, all come up short on meritorious admission. Whites will still be accepted though as legacy admissions.
Yep. Legacy admissions, "academic scholarships" for sports that most high schools do not have like Rowing, Skull, Lacross, water polo, and interpretative dance, and kids of donors.
I don't think it will change much outside of perhaps taking some places from African American students and sliding them to Asian students. The White students that have complained about Affirmative Action are likely not legacy, are not in the upper class so no Rowing or lacross at their school, cannot afford a big donation, and scholarships help for Affirmative Action would likely go to an Asian student or a donor kid.
When you have 61,221 Applicants and 1,984 Admitted, a lot of people with excellent marks are getting rejected.
We know, we know. You'll always claim it's there. It's too profitable. It's just like "global warming." It's a problem that will never be "solved." By design!
Anyone else notice that the left is upset by this...LOL
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