Texas Tech Medical School, Under Pressure From Education Dept., Will Stop Using Race in Admissions

New York Times ^ | April 9, 2019 | Anemona Hartocollis

[reaganaut1]

The Center for Equal Opportunity deserves credit for filing this case, and related documents are here.

[rjsimmon]

Good. Let this be the first of many dominoes to fall.

[Pearls Before Swine]

This ought to get Trump more of the Jewish vote. And, the Asian vote, and the white vote, generally. And, of course, if you’re for meritocracy, it’s the thing to do.

But, will anyone other than affirmative action groups notice?

[EEGator]

I predict Blacks getting accepted drops heavily.

[Varda]

Well that’s good but the elephant in the room is sex based admissions.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“It shows that the Trump administration is serious about enforcing the civil rights laws in a way that protects the rights of all Americans to be free from discrimination,”

That's impossible. Trump is a racist who hates brown people..

[NorthMountain]

the Texas Tech agreement was part of a broader pattern of chipping away at affirmative action.

"Affirmative action" is racism pure and simple. We shouldn't be "chipping away" at it, we should nuke it.

[Phillyred]

I predict they’ll triple the number of football and basketball recruits they “need”.

[EEGator]

LOL

[yldstrk]

My law school admission used GPA plus LSAT score, no interview, just a list and the highest 125 got acceptance letters.

[Lurker]

“14 years after the department began investigating a complaint filed by an anti-affirmative action group.“

14 years. Glad to see this case was settled so quickly. (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)

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[Jane Long]

Ping!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I predict Blacks getting accepted drops heavily.

But the ones who make it will be in a much better position to take advantage of it.

[Army Air Corps]

Excellent!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

My law school admission used GPA plus LSAT score, no interview, just a list and the highest 125 got acceptance letters.

I guess you need to have some kind of objective criteria, but that, to my mind, sounds like a formula for getting a large percentage of conformists and savants.

[EEGator]

Good, that’s how it should be.
I have no problem working with all kinds of people, but affirmative action breeds anger/distrust.

[cnsmom]

I predict their private practice job offers triple.

[EEGator]

Why is that?

[yldstrk]

Or people who test well on the cognitive criteria to be lawyers. The problem inherent in it is actually this: you can’t predict who is going to use the training to be serious and who is going to steal.

[Lumper20]

Agree. Undergrad GPA plus MCAT score should be the deciding factor plus what field the degree was in. These racial quotas have kept many much more qualified young adults from becoming the MD, which they worked hard to become. The same is true of our military academies now. Seems they have gender slots too.