Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by slt2021 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:03PM (#36528620)

Affirmative Action is not about social-democratic "lets help poor black people". Nobody is gonna help poor people in America.

Poor people are always told to "pull themselves by the bootstraps (sic!)"

The beneficiaries of AA are:

1. Kids of rich black people (like children of OBAMA)

2. Rich international students from African continent (Nigeria, Ghana etc)

3. Rich white young women (for those colleges that do AA based on gender)

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by usaar333 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:16PM (#36529314)

> Rich white young women (for those colleges that do AA based on gender)

Very few colleges prefer women. Of those that do, it's pretty much just the engineering focused ones and thus would pick up nearly as many Asian women as white women.

Generally, (weak) male preferences are more common given the general male underrepresentation in higher ed.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by slt2021 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:43PM (#36529513)

Also it mostly benefits legacies.

Legacy female +black with subpar SAT scores (despite having enough money for SAT prep) is a perfect candidate in Harvard’s eyes

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