"They got in because they're black"?

Madaboutx
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:04:56 +0000

Some of think that since admissions is a selective process that a school has the right to pick and choose.

No student has earned the right to attend a school by virtue of their stats. You may feel like you earned it but that’s a notion that your mommy and daddy may have instilled but that’s not reality. Students still have to be selected by a university that can use any mix of factors as the basis of their decision and as long as race, religion or creed is not the reason for not being selected and universities should be given wide latitude to pick choose from among a large number of applicants. Universities shouldn’t be slaves to a number or stat on a test that they didn’t even create. We are lucky that schools have agreed to use some of these more objective criteria at all because there is no law that says the ACT or SAT has to be used in admissions decisions. It doesn’t have to be used at all.

It’s not reverse discrimination because there is not a pattern of discrimination. Asians with high stats are both accepted and rejected at elite schools. The dirty secret is that so are minorities, legacies and exceptional athletes. We know exceptional athletes get rejected because most elite university teams fall far short of being the best. They could recruit better athletes but hold them to a higher academic standard so they lose some really top talent. And legacies get rejected all the time.

When blacks were discriminated against based on race, 0% of the incoming class was black. Compare that to the 40% of incoming classes that are Asians at schools that a few Asians want to claim are engaging in reverse discrimination.

Anyway, some people will never be convinced. Shutting down the brain to reasonable discussion and debate and refusing to be persuadable before hearing the matter should be reason enough not to accept a person into an institution of higher learning since that person doesn’t know what it means to learn.