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The Trump administration will encourage the nation’s school superintendents and college presidents to adopt race-blind admissions standards, abandoning an Obama administration policy that called on universities to consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses, officials said.
The reversal would restore the policy set during President George W. Bush’s administration, when officials told schools that it “strongly encourages the use of race-neutral methods” for admitting students to college or assigning them to elementary and secondary schools.
Giving priority to people just because of their skin color is:
1. racist
2. Makes the beneficiaries forever suspect as less qualified, because people assume a black from harvard was less qualified but got in because of their skin color, even if not true.
3. Has been shown to benefit upper middle class minorities who already would have done well https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-affirmative-action-became-an-upper-middle-class-benefit
4. Put people in bad situations since many would not have gotten in if their skin color was different, they end up being in too difficult a lace. They might thrive in a school more suited to their ability. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-painful-truth-about-affirmative-action/263122/
5. It discriminates against Asians
"A 2009 Princeton study showed Asian-Americans had to score 140 points higher on their SATs than whites, 270 points higher than Hispanics and 450 points higher than blacks to have the same chance of admission to leading universities."
although the supporters of affirmative action have good intentions, the actual results are that the policy hurts black students. It hurts them by putting them into schools that are above their ability, so they either end up dropping out, or, they abandon the STEM major that they had wanted in exchange for an easier major.
It also talks about how blacks are more likely to have white friends at the school if the school does not have affirmative action, because people tend to choose friends who are of the same academic ability as their own.
It also talks about how blacks are happier at schools that don't have affirmative action because there is never any question as to their qualifications.
It also says that the same problems happen with white students who are admitted for athletic reasons, and for legacy admissions too.
But most importantly, it says that blacks benefited when UCLA banned affirmative action. After the school ended affirmative action, the number of black freshman was cut in half. However, the number of blacks from these freshman classes who went on to graduate stayed the same.
In other words, UCLA's elimination of affirmative action did not reduce the number of blacks who graduated from UCLA. Instead, UCLA's elimination of affirmative action only reduced the number of blacks who dropped out of UCLA.
So instead of getting admitted to UCLA by affirmative action and then dropping out of UCLA because the work at UCLA was too hard for them, these blacks ended up going to easier colleges, where they were admitted based on merit, so they were capable of doing the work, and so they had a much better chance of graduating.
Before I post the Atlantic article, I'd like to post this one sentence from the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/o...dmissions.html
"A 2009 Princeton study showed Asian-Americans had to score 140 points higher on their SATs than whites, 270 points higher than Hispanics and 450 points higher than blacks to have the same chance of admission to leading universities."
That sentence is in complete agreement with everything that is in the Atlantic article. That one sentence explains how affirmative actions sets blacks up for failure and dropping out by putting them into schools that are too difficult for them. We should get rid of affirmative action, and put blacks into schools that they get into based on merit. That way, they will have a much better chance of graduating.
It also talks about how blacks are more likely to have white friends at the school if the school does not have affirmative action, because people tend to choose friends who are of the same academic ability as their own.
It also talks about how blacks are happier at schools that don't have affirmative action because there is never any question as to their qualifications.
It also says that the same problems happen with white students who are admitted for athletic reasons, and for legacy admissions too.
But most importantly, it says that blacks benefited when UCLA banned affirmative action. After the school ended affirmative action, the number of black freshman was cut in half. However, the number of blacks from these freshman classes who went on to graduate stayed the same.
In other words, UCLA's elimination of affirmative action did not reduce the number of blacks who graduated from UCLA. Instead, UCLA's elimination of affirmative action only reduced the number of blacks who dropped out of UCLA.
So instead of getting admitted to UCLA by affirmative action and then dropping out of UCLA because the work at UCLA was too hard for them, these blacks ended up going to easier colleges, where they were admitted based on merit, so they were capable of doing the work, and so they had a much better chance of graduating.
Before I post the Atlantic article, I'd like to post this one sentence from the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/o...dmissions.html
"A 2009 Princeton study showed Asian-Americans had to score 140 points higher on their SATs than whites, 270 points higher than Hispanics and 450 points higher than blacks to have the same chance of admission to leading universities."
That sentence is in complete agreement with everything that is in the Atlantic article. That one sentence explains how affirmative actions sets blacks up for failure and dropping out by putting them into schools that are too difficult for them. We should get rid of affirmative action, and put blacks into schools that they get into based on merit. That way, they will have a much better chance of graduating.
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