fluffyforever
Well-Known Member
I see both arguments but I’m not sure I am in favor of keeping affirmative action. I do not think it is really needed. I will say I also don’t know how it works exactly or if every school does admissions the same way.
In my point of view, college bound kids have gotten the qualifications to be admitted to college. They have the grades. If they don’t, affirmative action isn’t going to help them soar in college, where students are the most independent and have the least amount of consistent peer support. College bound kids have met the basic requirements to be accepted- did research and have taken all the prerequisite classes to meet the minimum requirements to be accepted into a school. Affirmative action doesn’t compensate for a student who never took a math class.
With that in mind, why is affirmative action really needed? How much is it actually helping- how many extra points is it giving to students’ applications? Is there an actual study on this- the percent of students that have only gotten accepted because of affirmative action points? How did they do in college?
plus, if affirmative action is basically helping everyone except white males, and certain Asian who are quota’d out, is it really all that important to keep? If everyone is special no one is.
I say let the schools be taken over by Asians and watch what schools do to maintain their culture. Grades are not the only thing schools consider.
There are so many ways to ensure a diverse body besides looking at race and sex. Essays should be more important now than ever before . Work experience. Admission interviews. Zip codes. Random drawings. School districts. States. Countries. So many ways to choose and limit students without using a federally protected class as a barometer. Schools can really choose whoever they want. Make it first come first served. The first to qualify are the first to get in.
Everyone can’t be accepted. People are always going to get cut from the list. Students need to understand that’s life.
In my point of view, college bound kids have gotten the qualifications to be admitted to college. They have the grades. If they don’t, affirmative action isn’t going to help them soar in college, where students are the most independent and have the least amount of consistent peer support. College bound kids have met the basic requirements to be accepted- did research and have taken all the prerequisite classes to meet the minimum requirements to be accepted into a school. Affirmative action doesn’t compensate for a student who never took a math class.
With that in mind, why is affirmative action really needed? How much is it actually helping- how many extra points is it giving to students’ applications? Is there an actual study on this- the percent of students that have only gotten accepted because of affirmative action points? How did they do in college?
plus, if affirmative action is basically helping everyone except white males, and certain Asian who are quota’d out, is it really all that important to keep? If everyone is special no one is.
I say let the schools be taken over by Asians and watch what schools do to maintain their culture. Grades are not the only thing schools consider.
There are so many ways to ensure a diverse body besides looking at race and sex. Essays should be more important now than ever before . Work experience. Admission interviews. Zip codes. Random drawings. School districts. States. Countries. So many ways to choose and limit students without using a federally protected class as a barometer. Schools can really choose whoever they want. Make it first come first served. The first to qualify are the first to get in.
Everyone can’t be accepted. People are always going to get cut from the list. Students need to understand that’s life.
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