I promised myself that I wouldn’t post on this issue again but I needed to correct some misstatements by others. This board shouldn’t be used to spread fake news.
- As far as I know, Michigan state law does not prohibit admissions committees from seeing the names of colleges applicants. I challenge anyone who believes otherwise to post the text of the law that so requires.
- There's no evidence that Michigan universities voluntarily redact applicant names and the poster who claimed otherwise was unable to provide any specifics.
- Holistic admissions includes considerations of race. Anyone who denies this has his/her head in the sand. Here's language from the US Supreme Court decision on undergraduate admissions to the U of Texas:
“The University of Texas at Austin considers race as one of various factors in its undergraduate admissions process. Race is not itself assigned a numerical value for each applicant, but the University has committed itself to increasing racial minority enrollment on campus. It refers to this goal as a “critical mass.” Petitioner, who is Caucasian, sued the University after her application was rejected. She contends that the University’s use of race in the admissions process violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Reasonable people cannot dispute that holistic admissions includes consideration of race. To deny that is to deny reality.
- We have a poster here who was a multi year varsity athlete, who worked hard academically too and achieved a very high ACT score of 35 among other accolades. He doesn't deserve to be bullied by a bunch of anonymous internet posters who can't even get their facts straight. Stop with the Asian stereotypes and trying to portray this teen as someone who did nothing but study. Stop deriding academic achievement as something to be looked down upon. If you've ever competed in athletics, you'd know how hard it is to achieve at a high level academically while training as a serious athlete.