Gazette Article / Statistics

<p>“…the university had the strongest applicant pool in its history, and it had accepted more students than ever in the three traditionally underrepresented minority groups — African American, Hispanic and Native American.”</p>

<p>I bleed Democrat blue and for a long time, I had agreed with affirmative action. Since the whole college process and getting decisions, one of which was a rejection from JHU, I have to say that I can no longer support AA. To think that I was more qualified than many others but they were the ones getting accepted simply because of their skin color or ethnicity gets under my skin a bit. I’m even more disappointed that JHU is not need-blind and rejects students based on their family’s income, but that has nothing to do with the thread and is a debate for another day. Cheers.</p>