Race Card in School.

[Itz Tragic]

As some of you may know, colleges like to be diverse, meaning they like to have people of various races attend their college. With this said, lets say you are applying at a college, and you are an Asian male (not saying that any of these races said are specifically at a loss/gain, just need to give a general example), and this college has a good bit of Asian males, but are lacking in black females. Some colleges would consider accepting a black female with lets say a GPA of possibly .3 or .4 less than yours (not taking into account extra curriculars or anything else, just GPA).

Many colleges want to be diverse to eliminate racism, yet will accept those of less merit but of a certain race more than another race with more merit. I personally believe that colleges should accept people based solely on merit. Say someone worked harder than and achieved more, and the other one did not work as hard and did not achieve as much, but were a minority. The one who did a better job should be put first regardless of any other condition. Race, history, or location should not affect applications, the one with the higher education and put forth more effort should have the advantage. By trying to eliminate racism by being diverse, they are only promoting racism.

Now this may not be a big issue with everyone, I personally am a soon to be 16 year old white male with a 4.0 GPA living in a white majority area, so this matters to me.

Discuss... :nice:

[Steroids]

No'one / organisation wants to be labled as being racist, yes its un-fair towards some people.

Same kind of thing when I wanted to join the police force, there was a much larger chance of getting in if you were anything but a white male.

[SkidooosH]

It's called affirmative action, gotta get used to it like everyone else

[Bows 0n Fire]

A black kid who is also a genius that grows up in da hood has a smaller share of the pre-birth lottery of luck than a rich white male genius who attended a prestigious school system.  Therefore, by extension, the black kid deserves the position more, as he worked harder and longer (presumably) to achieve the same thing.

That being said, there's not really a way to confirm if the black kid really had it that bad, or really worked that hard, so affirmative action has a shitload of holes in it as a system.  As a philosophy though, it's perfectly sound.

[Itz Tragic]

It's called affirmative action, gotta get used to it like everyone else

Thats a bullshit answer, kinda like saying gotta get used to slavery or the persecution of Jews.

[Taajir]

Thats absolutely NOTHING like it, how are those two analogies even CLOSE? XD

Time to spew out facts out of the ass....these are all off assumptions..

Most over-achieving people, or the top 5% of people applying to colleges often do come from privileged backgrounds. They've had access to better educations, a solid financial background, safety nets to fall back on, etc. Whereas someone who has busted their ass their entire life just may not have had access to things those people have, and I'm sorry to say, but minorities are a good step behind in financial status in America. This system may not be fair towards some people, but it works.

[Malak]

I don't think race should have anything to do with getting accepted to colleges, or anything else, for that matter.

[Jeff]

I don't think race should have anything to do with getting accepted to colleges, or anything else, for that matter.

i agree man.

I've often wondered about this issue as well. Statistically, some "races" have less people are actually able to apply to colleges in the first place, so I do believe that if a minority race were to apply vs. a majority race, the minority would be preferred.

BUT THIS IS RACISM IN THE FIRST PLACE.