Topic: College Admission Discrimination When applying to college, many questions have to be answered. Some ask for achievements and involvements whereas others ask for more personal information such as race and gender. Today, the court system sees many cases regarding acts of discrimination in the college application process. Obviously, some discrimination does exist whether it happens consciously or unconsciously. Discrimination or suspected discrimination can elicit anger or frustration; however, many people may not know the forms it can take and the reasons it happens. Racism and sexism are common forms of discrimination, yet colleges may hold prejudice in many aspects. In addition, discrimination could be the result of a lingering fear of a court case regarding discriminatory actions and prejudices. Therefore, evidence shows that discrimination takes on many forms and is the result of several different causes.
Affirmative Action is a major concept in the college application process, yet it may not be entirely understood. President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925 on March 6, 1961, allowing for employers and admission officers to “take affirmative
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Despite racial and gender discrimination being the most common forms of discrimination, discrimination against religion and denominations and type of schooling also exist and are equally damaging. In addition, the causes of discrimination also vary. While some causes are immoral, others are bred from acts to avoid the anger of being discriminatory. Therefore, college admission discrimination is not what it seems. People must take care to not breed discriminatory actions by blindly fighting against it. Quotas and statistics may lay a foundation to ensure no discrimination exists, they can also pave the way to creating more discrimination and prejudice. Evidently, discrimination can be rather ironic in its
In “Net (Race) Neutral: An Essay on How GPA + (reweighted) SAT - Race = Diversity,” Christine Goodman illustrates the opposing viewpoints in regards to the racial discriminatory efforts by the college institutions to help diversify the incoming freshman class. With this, Goodman provides statistics and opinions of experts on the matter, which includes comparison of such discriminatory acts against other institutions. To begin, she brings up an enlightening, yet controversial court case decision: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (2013). This court case demonstrates significance to this topic because it counteracts a previous court case, Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), which, “upheld diversity as a compelling interest that would justify narrowly
As perfectly illustrated in Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor’s book Mismatch, underqualified students admitted to more prestigious institutions on the grounds of providing diversity results in a marked increase in those same students struggling in their field of study and even dropping out when compared to their peers who attend schools more closely aligned with their previous
This standard requires universities to demonstrate that the inclusion of race furthers a compelling governmental interest, and is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest. Of particular importance to the Court is whether “the means chosen ‘fit’ th[e] compelling goal so closely that there is little or no possibility that the motive for the classification was illegitimate racial prejudice or stereotype.” Put differently, universities must demonstrate that including race in the admissions process is necessary to enroll a diverse student body, and is accomplished through means that are reasonably calculated to achieve the educational benefits of
By accepting certain percentages of each ethnicity, which would require the use of racial preference in the admissions process, the universities feel that it would be easier to maintain racial equality or as Harberson called it a “racial quota”. Harberson, who once worked as an admissions counselor for schools such as the University of Pennsylvania and at Franklin & Marshall College, stated how “Nowadays nobody on an admissions committee would dare use the term racial “quotas”, but racial stereotyping is alive and well. And although colleges would never admit students based on ‘quotas’, they fearlessly ‘sculpt’ the class with race and gender percentages in
Is affirmative action still necessary for guaranteeing equal access to educational opportunities at elite universities and graduate schools? Should admissions decisions be based solely on academic criteria and merit? Key Words: affirmative action, Grutter V. Bollinger, and diversity. Grutter V. Bollinger Research Paper 3 Affirmative Action in Education Affirmative action was formed more than fifty years ago.
Gratz and Hull are not alone on the defense side of affirmative action. In his article “University Affirmative Action Admissions Policies Are Toxic,” Robert Cherry asserts that “affirmative action admissions policies disportionately accept students with lower-than-average test score and grades. As a result, they are not adequately prepared for the rigors of top-tier universities.” In making this comment, Cherry clearly favors for affirmative action to be taken out of higher education. He supports his argument with data that suggest that minorities are not performing as well as whites because some colleges lower their standards in order to accept more minorities.
For individual discrimination, it is mainly that through our personal experiences and lessons learned and received in the past, to prejudiced another person. At the same time, institutional discrimination usually produce prejudice to the most of large institutions and organizations for part of the race and ethnic. In current society, individual discrimination is often released in the color issue today; we often are isolated by our own color. Sometimes, people who the white drive in the cars are easier to get forgiveness and understanding of police officers, but for other color race, these people usually tend to be suspects by other people. On the other hand, institutional discrimination is mainly manifested in several areas: economy, education,
Another thing that places students of color at a disadvantage in college admissions is the persisting cultural bias in high-stakes testing. “High-stakes” tests are those that are tied to major consequences, such as admission to college, or even high school graduation. Fair education reform advocates have long been citing an extensive record of standardized testing concerns, many of which relate to racial bias and discrimination. As researcher and author Harold Berlak explains in the journal Rethinking Education: Standardized testing perpetuates institutionalized racism and contributes to the achievement gap between whites and minorities. For instance, the deeply embedded stereotype that African Americans perform poorly on standardized tests
Proponents for race identification would argue that, ending race identification on college applications would cause “profound implications for the higher education leaving universities and graduate schools with a mass number of Caucasian students”(Cite). Removing affirmative action will only decrease diversity in the work force and universities leaving the majority of college campuses with the upper echelon. Proponents strongly believe in diversity and enhancing student’s exposer. That’s is why some university’s especially the University of California at Berkeley school of law are big supporters for affirmative action. When this university noticed a decrease in African Americans and Latinos admitted they thought affirmative action was the
Two Sides of the Same Coin In his essay “Brain versus Brawn”, Mark Cotharn talks about the discrimination he experienced as both a hard working student and a football player. He points out that while race and gender are usually what come to mind, there are many ways to discriminate. Even simple things such as being attractive or anything really that gives you an unfair advantage or another person can be considered discrimination to an extent.
In reality the policy destroys the camaraderie and team building as unqualified individuals is advanced ahead of those with proven track records. In addition, College Admission boards are also required to screen applications based on quotas that has been established by the affirmative action policy in an effort to promote diversity (James, 2010). American college testing [ATC] and Scholastic Test [SAT] scores are used to forecast future freshman grades and is the basis for entrance into prominent universities.
According to the dominant theory the affirmative action was firstly introduced to deal with two types of social disruption in the 1960s as campus protests and urban riots in the North. However, this article is based on different theory as dominant theory's empirical evidence is limited. It examines the initial reason for advent of race-conscious affirmative action in 17 undergraduate institutions in the United States. And according to the research this article concludes that there were two waves that contributed to affirmative action: 1) first wave in the early 1960s introduced by northern college administrators 2) second wave in the late 1960s introduced as a response to the protests of campus-based students. This article will help me to establish the main reasons for introduction of race-conscious affirmative action in undergraduate
Discrimination is a social view used to categorize the differences among different population groups based on perception. People can become a victim of prejudice attacks based on their ethnicity, race, and gender. Racism is the common form of discrimination, where certain groups within a target population are devalued. Minority groups are the victim of racism, where they are seen to have inferior social status based on one’s beliefs. Because of racism, people of color and people living in underserved communities do not receive quality resources and fair rights.
Throughout many of the affirmative action legal cases, one of the main arguments from proponents is that it is necessary in order to right the wrongs of past racial discrimination. Some say that affirmative action is justified because even though white applicants may be more qualified, this is only because they did not face the same hardships as their minority counterparts (Rachels, Ethics, 1973). Many argue if we do not integrate disadvantaged minorities into mainstream social institutions, they will continue to suffer the discrimination that has plagued our country for centuries and that this is detrimental to not only the minorities but also society as a whole (Anderson, 2002, 1270–71). However, the debate has recently shifted to the benefits of diversity in the classroom which the Supreme Court has affirmed as being a positive thing
Introduction The constitution of India grants and guarantees to us certain fundamental rights which include the right to equality. Article 14 of the Indian constitution states that no person shall be denied equality or equal protection before the law. It basically implies that everyone should be treated alike and no one must be discriminated against. It ensures that in similar situations, people are treated equally.