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With the end of affirmative action, MIT's incoming class better reflects merit

• mplewis 2y ago
  Totally. MIT admissions now reflect the merit of being born into a family that had the resources to put you into high-quality schooling, sign you up for extracurriculars, and help you study for admissions tests and write the essays. That’s merit, baby!
  • wryoak 2y ago
    Agreed, in full honesty, it is actual merit, because it is work applied to learning and succeeding. And I also agree with the underlying implications of your sarcasm: our system blows because it will never be able to sort us based on our inborn potential, only the results of the application of resources with which our parents were able to provide us. Although to continue with the honesty, sorting based on inborn potential sounds vaguely dystopian.
  • giardini 2y ago
    Or you can be smart and learn to study (most MIT students). Or you can be very smart (met a few of these).
• Jun8 2y ago
  From the NYT article on this topic(https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/mit-black-latino-enrollment-affirmative-action.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/mit-black-latino-enrol...): “M.I.T. officials took pains to make the point that the enrollment decline in historically underrepresented minority students did not mean that the university had admitted underqualified students in the past.” “Officials said that the change in the composition of the class also had nothing to do with the reinstatement, two years ago, of the SAT as an entrance requirement.” If these two hypotheses are untrue according to MIT officials, just what are they thinking caused the drop?