Private schools’ obsessions about race (Exeter, for instance, setting a 50% “people of color” target for admissions before reviewing a simple applicant,) will also have an effect on academia at all levels. In many cases this because the white kids admitted will already be legacies, who traditionally underperform others.
That is to say, frankly, that the students going to the big schools are decreasingly chosen on intelligence and performance factors.
In the secondary school world, schools like McCallie in Tennessee, which is a diverse but decidedly not-Woke institution, are now welcoming some of the brightest kids in the country... Kids whose families eschew race-based admissions policies and kids of “inferior” (white, asian) races.
This is the first time we have seen people, when talking about high-performing students, talk about “Choate, Exeter, Harvard-Westlake, McCallie...”
It will be interesting to see how desirable Harvard grads are in 5 years.
“. Private schools’ obsessions about race (Exeter, for instance, setting a 50% “people of color” target for admissions before reviewing a simple applicant,) will also have an effect on academia at all levels. In many cases this because the white kids admitted will already be legacies, who traditionally underperform others. “
This is the same tactics as the Ivy League.
In both cases I see it as the Elite trying to help their offspring by reducing the competition.
The Ivy League is THE gatekeeper to Regime institutions. If you get rid of the scholastic merit applicants, and replace them with intellectually deficient minorities, you reduce the competition for the legacies for position in Regime institutions.
Good for McCAllie to raise their standards. But they are going to find that their kids are excluded from the Ivy League - and thus the Regime leadership pipeline.
I’ve said for 10 years that were I a hiring manager, I’d consider no one with a non-STEM Ivy League degree. And I’d think twice about a STEM grad from there.