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The topic is: "College admission boards should consider a student's race before admitting them." Also known as the affirmitive action.

I'm on the Opposition... I as much information as possible stating that the college admission boards should not consider race before admitting students.

Thanks for all your help in advance. XD♥

Just to let you know, if colleges were to pay attention to race when allowing students in, it focuses on those minority races who rarely get into college, and allows them to get in, regardless of test scores.
It's not really a racial thing, and it's not excluding those who succeed...

Answer 1

Affirmative action is racism. Essentially, it's saying minorities are inferior so they need help artificially. Their race is the problem, so we need to artificially increase their numbers despite their race.

It's pretty ridiculous. That's why, when social scientists looked deeper into the reasons for using race, they found that socio-economic class was a truer indicator of being disadvantaged than race.

Not everyone has the same chance to get a good education. Some schools are better than others. Some people can afford SAT prep. The common denominator of those people are coming from poor backgrounds, not their race.

Answer 2

Affirmative Action, in a nut shell, is basically reverse-descrimination. While providing minorities a better chance to get into a university, it limits majorities, which goes against the 14th Amendment of the Constitution (equal protection...equal opportunities, etc.). Limits on Affirmative Action (which resulted from the Supreme Court case Adarand Constructors, Inc. vs. Pena, in which the SC ruled that, in order for AA programs to continue, there must be a compelling state interest or else the program is unconstitutional) have made AA a little more difficult to obtain, but it is still very possible for it to occur. The SC also ruled in Gratz vs. Bolinger that "diversity" (as many universities claim is their compelling state interest) is, in fact, not a compelling state interest at all. What the universities should be looking for, if they want diversity, is the classes the applicants took along with the clubs and activities that the applicants were involved in. If the universities want to use race as a way for students to get in, then they must have one hell of a compelling state interest, if not, then they're participating in unconstitutional acts, and which college would want to hurt their reputation by doing that?

Answer 3

I agree with you.

Acceptance should be based on acedemic acheivement..

Say their percentile of hispanic students had filled, but there come a hispanic girl who has a higher GPA than any other student in the school, but since that percentile was filled they wouldn't admit her.. I'm so sure this has really happened and its sad.. In a nation known as "the melting pot" we are doing a really bad job of showing future generations that we are an equal opportunity nation.

Answer 4

No they should not. Choosing someone on their race is stupid and ignorant, if someone is smart enough to enter college, why would it matter what race they are?