'If the Supreme Court decides to end affirmative action ... [t]he result will be institutions that are less representative, less intellectually stimulating, and less equipped to serve an increasingly diverse America.' A new Editor's Blog post by JLeeSoc:
certainly exists at universities, but eliminating affirmative action would not address the problem.
Despite these numbers, there is a visible and vocal minority that aligns with the plaintiffs who seek to upend the policy. Committed to protecting the opportunities for their US-born children, they draw a hard line when they fear that they are being held back by what they perceive as an unmeritocratic and racist policy toward college admissions.
The other misperception is that eliminating affirmative action would eliminate the racial bias against Asian American applicants. If SFFA were actually concerned about this issue, the group would have fought to eliminate the advantage that Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacy applicants , those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff . More thanof white admissions are ALDCs, whereas the share for African American, Asian American, and Hispanics is less than 16%.
Jennifer Lee is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Science in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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