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"But I reject the assumption that a college can't end up with a genuinely diverse group of students without an ethnically conscious admission process."
I do admire your idealism, but until we get there, I applaud colleges' efforts to increase their diversity to more closely match the general population. They do it because it works (meaning that it helps increase the mix).
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I also reject this assumption. It has never made sense to me why the people who argue in favor of a race-based admission process are the same ones who claim that "diverse" students are as qualified as non-"diverse" sudents. Wouldn't that make race-based admissions pointless since "diverse" students are already as qualified? I think it does, but obviously others don't see it that way.
Why does everything have to "closely match" the general population? Isn't that a
quota? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, quotas are illegal because of
Bakke. But, apparently, "closely matched populations" aren't illegal. Interesting indeed.