Minorities Admission

jumpseat
Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:08:10 +0000

Congrats to all of those who earned there way into UVA based on a tough (although biased) admissions process. Most of you worked your butts off to produce 1450+ SATs, 4.00 GPAs, and endless hours to ECs.
Others, as they admit on other posts, have shamefully been ‘banking’ on Affirmative Action as an URM in order to slip ahead of another more deserving applicant who has a better all-around application. Sadly, this has occurred countless times this year at UVA, and looks like it will for quite a while. Admissions (Dean J?) won’t admit this, but the hard data in the link below cannot be argued against intelligently. (Granted it’s a couple of years old, but in academia nothing changes quickly).
So to answer the original poster’s question, about whether “UVA gives special preference to minorities”…the answer, unfortunately, is an absolute ‘yes’. A very weak defense will abuse the word ‘diversity’ in order to try and explain away why this practice is followed.
The day that UVA, and other schools, use a ‘race-blind’ admissions process, will be a great day, although unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be anytime soon.
In the meantime, their unethical, existing process is an embarrassment to truly deserving minorities and to all non-minorities who were rejected in favor of a lower qualified applicant.

Center for Equal Opportunity;