RE: Trump administration backs Asian-American students in Harvard admissions lawsuit
April 7, 2018 at 4:55 pm
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2018 at 5:08 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 7, 2018 at 2:02 pm)alpha male Wrote:(April 7, 2018 at 1:58 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Affirmative action sucks.
Personally I think giving some points to certain groups makes sense.
However, I've never heard of taking points away from certain high-achieving groups. That does indeed suck. I suppose in some circumstances it gets the same results, but it really rubs me the wrong way.
How is giving you points fundamentally different from taking points away from your competitor?
The more fundamental solution seem to be to expand educational opportunity rather than forceably ration educational opportunity.
In California, the Great governor Reagan put in place an entire fiscal framework back by short term interests of the state's property owners designed to ensure the state's academically and research wise world-beating public University system, long thought to be hostile to the know-nothing agenda of the post Goldwater Republicans, will be permanently underfunded.
The University of California system, faced with little state financial support but state mandate to offer education to the state's residents for much below cost, did the expected thing. It preferentially admitted foreign student, particularly those from Asia, who paid the full tuition to cover the cost of educating them, over in-state student each of whom is a unreimbursed financial burden for the university.
