Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process

Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by nannePOPI on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:29PM (#21130242)

Reading about things like this I love the way we select people for university in Italy. There is a written test, multiple-choice questions.

Those who score higher, pass. Yes, it sounds like a system that favors test takers, but there are so many seats to take that if you don't score enough you really don't deserve the place (I say this as a person who was never smart not good at tests).

Nobody will consider anything else. Sadly, I've noticed a slight shift towards a more american way of talking about things like race and sex, even in universities, but I hope the legal system is strong enough to keep having neutral admissions.

Our economy is already in a bad place, last thing we need is young people being discriminated for anything but their ability to perform a task, even if arbitrary.

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Re:Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions... by tathougies on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:51PM (#21130477)

> There is a written test, multiple-choice questions

So we have this in the United States but it has been accused of being discriminatory because the outcomes differ by race. You can't make this stuff up people!

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