"They got in because they're black"?

Madaboutx
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:10:15 +0000

I’ll more directly answer. When 3% of the population has such a disproportionately high percentage in a class at top schools, I dont believe they have lower chances than others at all.

The merit or earned thing is something I bring up because that means that every applicant is chosen, selected or hand picked by other people who must ‘like’ that applicant and ‘feel’ that that student would be an asset to the school and the school an asset to the student. They also ‘believe’ that student is really passionate about them and someone is passionate that student. A committee is not making a decision based on objective criteria. They are selecting from among many student that could go on to be great one day. And race is such a small part of it to ensure that they have a student body that represents the world community and can participate in the tapestry of university life that exists on campus. All schools do that.

At one university, their two oboists graduated and one administrator announced that they were in need of oboist applicants. The student body should also reflect campus life and feed the organizations that exist on campus. But that’s slelective.

I hear what your saying but maybe I’ve settled into the idea that people are people. People are very discriminating. They don’t marry just anyone, race, religion, creed, ethnicity and sexual orientation is discriminated against everyday when people get married to their dream person. Why do so many Asians only marry Asians? And that applies to most people since very few marry outside of race. Is that not a discriminatory choice? It’s life. Colleges don’t marry students but they are made up of people making decisions using the best objective material at the time and yet the process still has a high element of selectivity involved.