Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?

Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by nullc on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:55AM (#27941948)

I'm dubious that economic standing isn't a better criteria than race in most situations where affirmative action would be desirable.

Providing programs to help those in a weaker economic position more directly addresses the need, results in programs that everyone can feel that maybe they or their family might benefit from, and avoids perpetuating raced based discrimination and the resulting resentment.

If when economic equality isn't the inequality you're attempting to correct it's so highly correlated that it should be sufficient-- after all, a big part about why we care about the lasting effects of historic racism is that it has produced a lasting weakened economic standing.

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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by andrekandre on Saturday July 24, 2021 @06:47PM (#27945032)

i think what your comment aludes to, and is an important point that gets lost easily is, concentrating on race masks the real issue which is systemic economic and opportunity disparity

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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by bayesian_horse on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:05PM (#27945480)

I think you underestimate contemporary racial discrimination.

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