Take Aways From This Year's Admissions

IvyGrad09
Mon, 22 May 2017 19:49:05 +0000

Discussions of UnderRepresentedMinorities “getting unfair breaks” spin quickly into ugly territory. But there’s so little to go around nowadays that people are looking for scapegoats to blame for what they’re not getting.

Only recently has it emerged that Jared Kushner’s father (an ex-con billionaire) bought his mediocre son’s way into Harvard for $2,000,000. Yeah, there are undeserved breaks given away daily, have been for centuries–and they were not going to URMs.

Affirmative action isn’t most important for the URM individuals who may be recognized now for their talents and abilities. It’s most important for our society, which has been starving itself of those important contributions of talent and ingenuity.

I’ve never had a Latino doctor have you? Can’t remember ever seeing one in any practice I’ve been a patient in. Yet the World Health Organization ranks U.S. health care at a lowly #38 in quality (and #1 in cost.) Perhaps we’ve been hanging on to our biases too long, maybe even at the risk of our own lives.