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Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by autokad on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:46PM (#27308273)
I am barely paraphrasing, but they want admissions based on skin color. dark skinned people step to the front of the line while light skin people face lottery admissions.
Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by whoooooo123 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:06PM (#27308556)
Getting rid of the SAT serves two purposes:

1. Pulling up the drawbridge for smart kids from disadvantaged backgrounds, thus making room for less talented children of the wealthy.

2. Getting rid of objective, falsifiable assessments so they can select instead for ideology and party loyalty.

Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by MikeUt on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:33PM (#27321733)
> select instead for ideology and party loyalty.

Already being done, but not yet at the student level: https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...

Not officially, at least. The kind of organization that requires a political pledge as condition of employment, was not bias-free the day before the requirement became official.