"As a white, it makes me somewhat sick to my stomach to think that I might have benefited from affirmative action. If Asians are better than me, score better than me, I shouldn't displace any of them in the university."
I didn't know this when I first heard of affirmative actions (moved to the US in junior year) but predominantly Black Colleges have to adhere to quotas too but have a hard time doing so. Many of those colleges simply do not get enough white or other ethnicity applicants. In fact, some give full scholarships to white students to try to attract them.
So a measure that is supposed to help bring more minorities to college actually causes them to loose places they previously had.
Frankly, having grown up in Canada, I had never really thought of the question until I moved to the US. I guess we sorta have a blind eye to those issues up here. Dunno if that's good or bad.
for all state universities, and I have every reason to expect that an explicit quota would be found illegal for a private university under the general federal civil rights statute enforced by the Department of Education. But colleges appear to have suspiciously consistent numbers from year to year without admitting to having quotas.
I didn't know this when I first heard of affirmative actions (moved to the US in junior year) but predominantly Black Colleges have to adhere to quotas too but have a hard time doing so. Many of those colleges simply do not get enough white or other ethnicity applicants. In fact, some give full scholarships to white students to try to attract them.
So a measure that is supposed to help bring more minorities to college actually causes them to loose places they previously had.
Frankly, having grown up in Canada, I had never really thought of the question until I moved to the US. I guess we sorta have a blind eye to those issues up here. Dunno if that's good or bad.