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Discrimination is the fundamental goal of college admissions, unless it is a school that accepts everyone who applies. There are multiple existing bases for su
by snowwrestler 5y ago
Discrimination is the fundamental goal of college admissions, unless it is a school that accepts everyone who applies.
There are multiple existing bases for such discrimination that don’t make headlines because we’re used to them: grades, test scores, geography, hobbies, interests, national origin, etc. Basically, all the stuff that goes into each kid’s application.
In that context it seems kind of silly to hold up one basis—self-expressed racial identity—as absolutely off-limits for any consideration at all.
- chuckee 5y agoIf you're willing to call the civil rights movement silly, sure. But in any case, the university and courts and media should phrase it honestly and directly. "This court finds the university's racial discrimination is legal" and not "the university did not do the wrong kind of racial discrimination". Maybe the brochures for new students should inform them that, in addition to having "high academic standards" they also "prefer student applicants of race X, Y, and Z". It is after all silly to hold racial discrimination off-limits, so the university should have no problems being open about it, right?
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