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What university admissions choose to do is the university's own choice, particularly if the university is private, like all the Ivy Leagues are. If they want to
by JDShu 15y ago
What university admissions choose to do is the university's own choice, particularly if the university is private, like all the Ivy Leagues are. If they want to accept lower quality applicants in the name of diversity, that is their choice. The highly talented students they reject can go elsewhere and raise the quality of the universities that do accept them. The brand of the undergraduate school is overrated anyway.
- jsnk 15y agoProblem is much more complicated than that. 1. Universities receive large amount of public funding. 2. Are you willing to let all private institutions, companies, individuals decide for themselves and have their own policy on serving what kind of people they want to deal with?
- JDShu 15y ago1. But they are privately owned so their primary obligation should be to act in a way that they believe benefits the university and complies with the law. 2. My answer to your question is yes, but specifically in the case of Universities, doubly so. The value of the University is highly dependent on the quality of the students.
- jhancock 15y agonah...even many public schools are allowed to balance themselves for diversity. If there is evidence that schools are being racist (the ugly side of the term), this is one thing. But I haven't seen evidence of this. They seem to be trying to provide diversity for all the right reasons. This is complex. Companies, and stuff that happens outside of school should be held to a different standard. Edit: big companies sometimes have open policies of trying to hire for disabilities. Even if it means an equally qualified person gets skipped so the blind guy gets the job.