Do white people really want merit-based admissions policies? (Brown, Clinton, Sanders)

[bill83]

Do white people want merit-based admissions policies? Depends on who their competition is. - Vox

Very interesting read.

[LS Jaun]

Originally Posted by bill83

Do white people want merit-based admissions policies? Depends on who their competition is. - Vox

Very interesting read.

What a stupid race baiting article. If the students are all American it will benefit us all if the brightest minds come out on top.

[le roi]

Originally Posted by bill83

Do white people want merit-based admissions policies? Depends on who their competition is. - Vox

Very interesting read.

Clearly, the views of white Californians represent all white people on planet earth.

[thecoalman]

White, black, brown, purple with polka dots, male or female.... you need to be judged on merit. Until we get beyond this racial issues are not going away. Equal means equal.

[PCALMike]

Vox is a lapdog media outlet for the Clinton campaign and has been taunting Sanders and their supporters at every turn. Stearing clear of this joke of a propaganda outlet.

[LS Jaun]

Originally Posted by PCALMike

Vox is a lapdog media outlet for the Clinton campaign and has been taunting Sanders and their supporters at every turn. Stearing clear of this joke of a propaganda outlet.

I see the writer is a "Race and Identity Reporter". Someone who gets paid to create controversy over race.

[Mason3001]

Originally Posted by bill83

Do white people want merit-based admissions policies? Depends on who their competition is. - Vox

Very interesting read.

White people are bad.

[saltine]

No, thank you. I've had enough race baiting for a lifetime.

[phetaroi]

I don't know about the people here on City Data, but in "real life", the people I've heard complain most about this topics never went to college or never completed college. Just sayin'.

[ReineDeCoeur]

Not surprised at all.

Nice info re Abigail Fisher:

And even if she had received an additional point for race in the holistic review process, she still wouldn't have qualified for one of the provisional spots that overwhelmingly benefited white applicants. Of the students who were provisionally admitted to UT with lower test scores than Fisher, five were black or Latino applicants. Forty-two were white. The University also noted that 168 black and Latino students with better academic and personal achievement records than Fisher were rejected.


Nonetheless, Fisher perpetuates the myth of meritocracy that everyone with the same skills and experience should have the same access to opportunities regardless of their background, despite evidence that shows otherwise.

A 2009 sociological study found that white applicants were three times more likely to be admitted to selective schools than Asian applicants with the exact same academic record. Additionally, affirmative action will not do away with legacy admissions that are more likely available to white applicants.