The Supreme Court ruled colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis in admissions — a landmark decision that overturns long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education.
Not to mention that you may actually be hurting minorities by allowing them to go to schools they aren’t quite prepared for. A lot of people end up leaving science because of this. They may not quite be up for a Stanford or MIT, but they might be extremely well qualified for a university just one or two rungs lower.
Instead they flunk out when, okay, maybe they wouldn’t have won a Nobel prize, but they could have actually had a very good career in STEM.
There is a huge problem out there with the inequality in access and quality of even primary Education in the US.
Make it so that inner city schools are as good as posh private schools and I guarantee you that there will be a ton of kids from poor minorities well prepared to attend the likes of Stanford and MIT.
Affirmative Action has been used as a massive distraction from the huge discrimination along income lines in Education in the US whilst doing almost nothing to actually correct the worst discrimination, as it’s not the well-off kids who attended expensive private and are “prepared for MIT” and happen to be black or latino who need help.
There is no will to help those who trully need help since most of them “are from the wrong socio-economic strata” and deemed as “wouldn’t fit in the culture of our university” hence all there is are this kind of bullshit marketing fake-help measures which carry on filtering out poor kids.
Not to mention that you may actually be hurting minorities by allowing them to go to schools they aren’t quite prepared for. A lot of people end up leaving science because of this. They may not quite be up for a Stanford or MIT, but they might be extremely well qualified for a university just one or two rungs lower.
Instead they flunk out when, okay, maybe they wouldn’t have won a Nobel prize, but they could have actually had a very good career in STEM.
There is a huge problem out there with the inequality in access and quality of even primary Education in the US.
Make it so that inner city schools are as good as posh private schools and I guarantee you that there will be a ton of kids from poor minorities well prepared to attend the likes of Stanford and MIT.
Affirmative Action has been used as a massive distraction from the huge discrimination along income lines in Education in the US whilst doing almost nothing to actually correct the worst discrimination, as it’s not the well-off kids who attended expensive private and are “prepared for MIT” and happen to be black or latino who need help.
There is no will to help those who trully need help since most of them “are from the wrong socio-economic strata” and deemed as “wouldn’t fit in the culture of our university” hence all there is are this kind of bullshit marketing fake-help measures which carry on filtering out poor kids.