College admission is one of the most convoluted and complex issues concerning race....and now gender. Affirmative action would allow colleges to accept higher numbers of students that are minorities or women simply based on their socio-political groups rather than on eduational merit. However there are two kinds of affirmative action: that based on color; and the other on economic status.
Personally, I don't think students should be admitted based on the status as a minority and more than women should. I find myself to be a feminist...but not an unreasonable one. Colleges are for those that want to be there, for those that worked hard. I completely understand if you grew up in a rough neighborhood with a low income per capita, but being admitted simply because I should needs to keep a quota based on race is wrong.
Too bad this is actually working to the disadvantage of female college applicants to ivy league schools.
A new article reveals that many schools are admitting that they deny some equally or more qualified women in exchange for men to keep a constant 49 to 51 ratio.
oh wow.
Although most schools admit that the ratio will be forced to increase this ratio and allow more women in, this does not cover the fact that women are (and have been) "better students". Last time I checked colleges are meant for the academically qualified. If two students have the same SAT scores, but the boy has a lower GPA, he now gets into some one else's spot.
Women can never win. We always get screwed by the system. First it's we "aren't equal" so we don't get to go have an education. Now it's we're "too smart" to get in???? Does anyone else see anything wrong here?!
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there's something structurally wrong with our system. this can simply be seen when you look into harlem or other poor neighborhoods and see only african americans. why??? not because they're stupider, but bc they were put there way back in the day, and our system has created a cyclical system of poverty and racism. schools are shitty in those neighborhoods, no one has health insurance, obesity is a huge problem, and all of this affect how a kid grows up. the government doesn't fund these poor areas, why? bc no child left behind only funds schools that pass bush's retarded standards. hence, the gap between kids in suburbia and poor kids grow larger. further proving my point that the system is fucked up. affirmative action is simply a way to alleviate the effects of structural racism. affirmative action is needed to undue past mistakes, and one day it may create an equal society. you can rarely consider socio economics without considering race. they really go hand and hand, it's unforunate, but right now, they do.
o ya this blog was about women, ya is a white man's world out there. we gotta fight it.
p.s. what is an unreasonable feminist? all feminism means is equality. those irvine kids are corrupting you.
p.p.s.
this is shilpa
i didn't mean that, i love irvine kids. the liberal ones.
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