The Supreme Court decisions in cases involving Harvard and UNC restricted consideration of race in college admissions, effectively overturning decades of court precedent.
Affirmative Action has now ended in the United States.
I often wondered if it is something that should be explored to have a double blind test to admit students to school and have them judged on meritocracy, not from their skin, location, culture, or anything else that isn’t relevant to academic overall.
It’s extremely naive to think that those traits don’t have impacts on academic performance and capability. Not to say that black people are biologically more <whatever> than white people, but their experience living as a black person in this country has direct impacts on their academic experience, both historical and future. A pure meritocracy ignores the benefits of diversity, both to society and at the individual level.
I often wondered if it is something that should be explored to have a double blind test to admit students to school and have them judged on meritocracy, not from their skin, location, culture, or anything else that isn’t relevant to academic overall.
It’s extremely naive to think that those traits don’t have impacts on academic performance and capability. Not to say that black people are biologically more <whatever> than white people, but their experience living as a black person in this country has direct impacts on their academic experience, both historical and future. A pure meritocracy ignores the benefits of diversity, both to society and at the individual level.