If colleges want what is best for the college why will they take a student who has a lower GPA and SAT's just because of their race. Someone's background should not be the judgement fro a college to chose who should be accepted. You should be accepted based on what you can produce and based on what you can accomplish. Colleges get so paranoid about the statistics based on race, religion, culture, and gender. These statistics ruin everything about college acceptance because it is not fair at all. The college develops this system so that it appears to be diverse but it is not fair. People are different in their own sense and should not be rounded up to a whole average number. what colleges do to make their college look diverse is borderline illegal; they are not allowing certain students to attend the school based on their differences. Equal Employment does not allow anyone to discriminate based on age, disability, sex, equal pay, national origin, pregnancy, religion, retaliation, and sexual harassment. Being a full time student is like a job so we should not be discriminated against. http://www.eeoc.gov/ this is where i found the rights that someone has as an employee. As a full time college student it feels like we are employed.
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While I do think that reverse discrimination is a problem, it is important for college to consider elements of a student's background.
That is to say, college's shouldn't say "Oh this student is black, he's automatically. Meanwhile, we'll reject this student because he's white."
Rather look at a scenario with Students A and B. Students A and B are for the sake of this argument "equally smart and hardworking".
Student A lives in a town much like East Brunswick and has had the benefit of a blue ribbon school system, tutors, extra-curricular programs, summer camp, and parents who are around enough to give support.
Student B lives in a slum where the quality of the school building is in question as is the quality of the teachers and the resources. Student B couldn't afford to go to extra programs and has not had education beyond a poor high school.
Student A probably has a much better transcript and record simply because A has had more opportunities. Is it fair that student A should get even better education at college, whereas student B, equally smart and hardworking, might not be able to go to college at all without some help?
For this reason, I think student's backgrounds should be looked into and that they should be given the support they need.
I myself am a white girl, living in East Brunswick. My father is an attorney. Both my parents have ivy league college educations. I have gone to tutors and college summer camps. I can get into so many colleges and if some of them turn me down to favor someone less fortunate than I am, that is a sacrifice that I should be willing to make for my fellow humans.
Dana "Sunshine"
But you have to remember colleges are able to have slightly differen rules than the government. They can have more or less restrictions based on what the topic at hand is.
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