RE: There is nothing Positive about 'affirmative action'
January 12, 2014 at 2:42 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2014 at 2:48 pm by theyear12013.)
(January 12, 2014 at 2:38 pm)Tiberius Wrote: IMO, elite colleges should select their entire student body based on academic merit. Heck, most colleges should do this.
Yes but how do you get that merit and avoid corrupt admissions policies as seen in the the current system. And do we really want to have drone test takers like in China. I've worked with some brilliant minds from there -- no soft skills to interpret their raw data at all.
And sorry to keep quoting from Unz but his suggestion is to get the tippedy top of academic achievers -- and then randomly select from the rest of the qualified applicants who meet requirements. "Let us explore the likely social implications of such an admissions policy, focusing solely on Harvard and following a very simple model, in which (say) 300 slots or around 20 percent of each entering class are allocated based on pure academic merit (the “Inner Ring”), with the remaining 1300 slots being randomly selected from the 30,000 or so American applicants considered able to reasonably perform at the school’s required academic level and thereby benefit from a Harvard education (the “Outer Ring”)."
