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> Eliminate legacy admissions and make everything race blind but incorporate a generational wealth score. You know, that's a really interesting idea. Sounds si
by jakelazaroff 6y ago
> Eliminate legacy admissions and make everything race blind but incorporate a generational wealth score.
You know, that's a really interesting idea. Sounds similar to Kapor Capital's "distance traveled" metric they use when hiring — basically, what were the candidate's circumstances and how hard did they have to work for their accomplishments. https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/02/kapors-2/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/02/kapors-2/
- iaw 6y agoWow, I like that article. This line really struck me as an excellent point: "...if you believe you’re a meritocracy and you have numbers like everybody who has released their data, the implicit message is that Caucasian men are better than everyone else. Because that’s who is overrepresented. It’s endorsing a notion that these other people aren’t as good, and therefore that’s why there aren’t a ton of them."