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One thing I never understood is why colleges themselves fight so hard for affirmative action? Wouldn't admitting the most qualified students, regardless of race
by HeavenFox 3y ago
One thing I never understood is why colleges themselves fight so hard for affirmative action? Wouldn't admitting the most qualified students, regardless of race, be in their own interest? If they are afraid of the political pushback for having too few Black and Hispanics, doesn't this decision give them cover?
- raincom 3y agoElite schools want to protect the quota of ALDC (athletes, legacies, dean's interest list--kids of potential mega donors--, children of faculty). Also, they want to appear diverse, by having favored minorities. They don't really care about descendants of slavery; if they were, they would have admitted descendants of slavery (a narrow subset of black people). Elites schools such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford want to keep their exclusiveness. Only one way to achieve that is to recruit the kids of the elite class (uber wealthy, powerful politicians, dictators, Cervant class of the elite); also have elite companies recruit people from such schools.
- rendang 3y agoOne explanation is that the officials involved are "true believers", not acting out of fear of pushback but out of their own values.
- dahwolf 3y agoThousands of very well paid administrators depend on this problem persisting, hence it's not supposed to be ever solved.