Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that against the law?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that against the law?
Universities are using all sorts of ways to get around any ban on affirmative action so that they can construct "diversity" any way they want to. There is a recent movement to stop using SAT scores. They will do anything to avoid having a majority of high-achieving whites, or too many males, et cetera; and each school has its own system. Their processes have become arcane and arbitrary.
I read a story in which one admissions officer described having a stack of possibles on her desk and an approaching deadline. She drew a chalk circle on the floor, climbed on a chair, dumped the stack, and took the ones that fell outside the circle.
When my kid was going through it and we were attending these open house events at various schools, I overheard one girl say, "I don't get it. I was accepted to Harvard, but couldn't get into Wake Forest."