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When you offer diversity-based scholarships as opposed to need-based, you don’t actually select for the people who are disadvantaged because of their background
by wyager 9y ago
When you offer diversity-based scholarships as opposed to need-based, you don’t actually select for the people who are disadvantaged because of their background; you select for people who are not disadvantaged and incidentally have a background that may disadvantage other people.
If your goal is to help disadvantaged people, you should be giving out some combination of need- and merit- based scholarships.
- kelukelugames 9y agoI somewhat agree with the first part. That's why most of Harvard's black students are first or second generation African immigrants. I have Nigerian friends who joke about being Nigerian princes because, well, they kind of are. The second part assumes class is the only disadvantage. Perhaps preference for poorer student is the only type of affirmative action accepted by both major US political parties. And I agree money solves a lot of problems, but it doesn't fix every race and gender issues. The best example is all of the famout actresses bringing awareness to sexual assault.
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- goialoq 9y ago> That's why most of Harvard's black students are first or second generation African immigrants. citation?
- kelukelugames 9y agoFound this from google search. https://www.theroot.com/black-immigrants-overrepresented-in-the-ivy-league-1790869651 https://www.theroot.com/black-immigrants-overrepresented-in-... Can't remember the article I original read. I went to MIT and of the handful of black students I knew well, half were foreign.