Race in MIT admissions.

underarchiever
Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:07:28 +0000

Chris, in this hypothetical case all other factors are equaled including taking advantage of available resources. The only differences are race, family background and scores. Both race and family background are out of control of a student. If using these factors to enhance or discount the achievement of a student, it is a practice of preference or discrimination. Your argument of taking poor minority of students because of rarity sounds like pursuing a rare commodity or a curiosity. Does this mean that an asian poor having the same 2200 score is not favored because of plenty of them? At the end, it is the race that matters. If this is not discrimination, I don’t know what is.