Take Aways From This Year's Admissions

IvyGrad09
Mon, 22 May 2017 22:11:35 +0000

Yikes. Let me guess, a lawyer? First a distraction and then a justification for cheating.

My point remains that affirmative action is a valiant attempt to reset years of superstious belief that authority should be invested in a particular color, type, and gender. I hope as a culture we can question a system by which more and more of us are destined to lose.

Our confidence has been misplaced, as the dwindling middle class and our teetering economy suggests. Public discourse is less than civil and diplomacy for any meaningful aim is in peril.

That 1% can buy advantages in college placement undermines the principles of the endeavor we are engaging in: fairness, merit, a chance for intelligence to trump graft. There may be many justifications and excuses one can generate for why it’s ok to cheat, my point is that URMs are not the problem in the unfair advantages department.