a group of the most prestigious private colleges in America are handing a massive admissions advantage to rich kids over less affluent kids — even when they have the same SAT scores and academic qualifications.
Interested to see how people can be against this but for race based affirmative action, where the admissions are even more swayed in favour of the people with lower scores and qualifications getting in.
As an Australian I find the whole US college system just insane. Here if you get the marks you get in to University. There’s no writing essays and doing interviews and padding out a high school resume. It’s based on merits, as it should be.
Then there’s the whole fraternity thing too, but that’s another story for another day.
the rich have plenty of material advantages and don’t need more.
The point of race-based affirmative action in the USA is that we have evidence systemic disadvantages for certain races, so those could be systemically ‘balanced’ with affirmative action (‘balanced’ in quotes because all of these things are band-aids at some level).
And certainly you will agree that ONLY the rich having advantages is the worst of all worlds, as it will continue to concentrate wealth in few hands and destabilize society.
I agree that the US college system is insane in general. We should probably start regarding them as nothing more than overpriced branded buildings, because they are not going to reform themselves and indeed they probably always functioned as rubber-stamp factories for the rich. They don’t know how to change now.
Interested to see how people can be against this but for race based affirmative action, where the admissions are even more swayed in favour of the people with lower scores and qualifications getting in.
As an Australian I find the whole US college system just insane. Here if you get the marks you get in to University. There’s no writing essays and doing interviews and padding out a high school resume. It’s based on merits, as it should be.
Then there’s the whole fraternity thing too, but that’s another story for another day.
I’d find that easy:
the rich have plenty of material advantages and don’t need more.
The point of race-based affirmative action in the USA is that we have evidence systemic disadvantages for certain races, so those could be systemically ‘balanced’ with affirmative action (‘balanced’ in quotes because all of these things are band-aids at some level).
And certainly you will agree that ONLY the rich having advantages is the worst of all worlds, as it will continue to concentrate wealth in few hands and destabilize society.
I agree that the US college system is insane in general. We should probably start regarding them as nothing more than overpriced branded buildings, because they are not going to reform themselves and indeed they probably always functioned as rubber-stamp factories for the rich. They don’t know how to change now.