Harvard: Once you get in, it's easy

[SubZeroX]

May I also mention that their selection process is terribly unfair.

I applied to Harvard, Yale, and Stanford and did not get in. While three other guys I know, who are "under-represented minorities" got in. They had far lesser credentials than me.

These Ivy League schools are so caught up in creating an image of being liberal and politically correct for themselves that they sacrifice fairness to students who deserve to get in.

 

[Novgrod]

I say 'scared' because Yale professor John Lott did a study several years ago finding affirmative action policies which put race and diversity over substance like qualification of the applicant has measurably affected the caliber of recruits in many city police and fire departments. Many cities even went as far as accepting minority applicants with serious criminal records, for which whites would automatically be excluded. Lott was immediately branded a racist and was alleged to have said "blacks and women can't be good police officers", which was not the conclusion of his study nor was it remotely implied.

Excellent post . . .

As a first year in a sociology class, I had to read _The Shape of the River_, about how wonderful affirmative action could be. The authors' argument was that diversity in the classroom helped everyone, not just those who otherwise wouldn't have been accepted. Well, if you want diversity, there are much better ways to approach it than racially. For instance, I've proposed a redneck integration program.

Back on the topic of forcing education on people: it seems to me that the cultures least represented in institutions of higher learning (I saw an article in a campus newspaper explaining uproar at the lack of tenured hispanic/black professors just today) are those cultures that don't exalt education as the be-all end-all achievement of life. When people want to learn, they'll do just that. Until such a time, it seems pointless to force something on them.