<p>socioeconomic AA will work. the whole point of AA is to help underprivileged minorities. if you look at statistics, african americans, hispanics and native americans generally tend to be poorer. so doing it based on money will still help them. it would get rid of benefits to the wealthier minorities. it would also help the poor whites and asians. this seems pretty fair to me. socioeconomic status can be changed so overtime, it doesnt have the same stigma as basing AA on race has so in the long run, the emphasis on blaming admission on race will fade a little and minorities in top colleges wont be looked down upon as much. the only downside i see in this is that the NAACP will complain because they like when policies are race related so they can remain relevant. so if AA gets rid of race and it works better than under race, the NAACP will lose some influence and jesse jackson might actually have to find a real job.
but still… no gov policy can fix african americans’ problems. unless family and education become culturally important, you wont see much advancement. sometimes kids are stronger than the parents so if they are exposed to important life facts earlier, they will more likely to care more about school and work harder. this can be done by requiring all kids starting at kindergarten to watch videos each beginning and end of the year that shows the benefit and consequences of education and life choices. those videos should advance in thoughts from importance of caring at kindergarten to importance of college at beginning of 5 grade. schools should start emphasizing college choices/opportunities at 6 grade. all of this will help the kids with less staler family conditions.
also, we need to drug test all people on welfare because many of those people are using gov money that is meant to buy food for their kids to buy drugs. this will help those kids and make sure they are getting fed. instead of giving direct money/debit card, they should get physical food. if parents are on drugs, take the kids away.</p>
<p>also, tuition doesnt really go toward the financial aid budget for most schools. most schools get that money from alumni donations and endowment which they invest and get more money from that money. thats why harvard can afford to give everyone a free ride if they need it. they have a huge endowment and they get millions a year just from the interest/investments of those money.</p>