<p>Instead of constantly attacking the system, can we think of solutions to affirmative action with the intent of maintaining diversity in the top colleges? Keep in mind that colleges don’t want a 100% asian student body. The best alternative I can think of is to have colleges utilize affirmative action based solely on family income.</p>
<p>I don’t think there should be any kind of affirmative action.</p>
<p>The most qualified students should get in. When I say qualified, I mean good SAT scores, great EC’s, good grades, etc. NOT black, hispanic, or native. </p>
<p>Race should not be an advantage or hinderance when applying for college.</p>
<p>but what happened when we eliminated affirmative action in cali? berkely has a 50% asian student body and a declining white population. do you believe everybody is equally privileged?</p>
<p>So what if Berkely is 50% Asian? They’re the most qualified so they should get in. If you’re unhappy about it then why don’t you get better grades and test scores and then apply.</p>
<p>According to Pierre Bourdieu, equality of opportunities in the access to college education doesn’t guarantee equality of success probability because it entails different start points. I guess that the purpose of AA is to prevent that “heirs” of social power get all the leadership position in the future society; and that’s done to achieve true equality. One day college admission would be really blind.</p>
<p>“So what if Berkely is 50% Asian? They’re the most qualified so they should get in. If you’re unhappy about it then why don’t you get better grades and test scores and then apply.”</p>
<p>Thank you! </p>
<p>Perhaps a solution would be programs that encourage higher academic performance in the URM community. Giuliani did something similar with Welfare in the poor community. Instead of people not working and collecting Welfare checks every month, he implemented Welfare-to-work programs in which people got jobs to make $ instead of relying on Welfare checks. The same could be done for AA. We should be encouraging URMs to work harder and get into colleges based on their own efforts rather than relying on AA as the poor relied on Welfare. For anyone who doesn’t think this will work, compare the NYC of the 1980 and early 90s to the NYC today. The % of residents on welfare is the lowest it’s been since the 1960s, as well as the crime rate.</p>
<p>are any of the above posters not asian?</p>
<p>I’m a white male. </p>
<p>I just don’t think it is right that Asians are discriminated against in college admissions, just as it wasn’t right for blacks to be discriminated against under the Jim Crow system.</p>
<p>I’m South American, caucasian. Here in Argentina, like in most countries, race has nothing to do with college admission; they don’t even ask. The truth is that most universities admit 100% of the applicants, though.</p>
<p>It could be based on economic status rather than race.</p>
<p>thats what im saying</p>
<p>It would be impossible to have economic AA since money talks. As long as the “green stuff” exists, doors will always be opened at colleges to unqualified rich kids. On the other hand, a ban on racial preferences in admissions could be impleneted at any time, just like in the UC system.</p>
<p>send um all back to the countries they came from, we are the original people.</p>
<p>terminating AA is definitely not the best solution.</p>
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What tribe are you from, brother?</p>
<p>Dump all preferences in the system, then I will talk. That includes even the ones that are the big payers, as well as legacies and athletes. Have a problem with ‘lack of funding’? Charge more if you are so inclined, because you already have a large enough applicant base.</p>
<p>stop being greedy</p>
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<p>I’m white.</p>
<p>AA IMO should be based on socio-economics. However, generally (and I hate the pepole that say, “oh but what about the rich black kid”), minorities and those who AA applies to have a lower socio-economic standing, but again generally. I used to be against AA, but I feel only lazy white boys who need excuses complain about it, but hey!? that’s me…</p>