Re:Throw Out the College Application System
by GabrielF00 on Sunday October 05, 2014 @09:33PM
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The use of the term "ethnic cleansing", which refers to systematic attempts to expel and, in many cases, murder people based on their ethnicity, is not appropriate in this context. Your use of the term makes your post, which otherwise raises important and historically-relevant points, lose considerable credibility.
Most of the techniques discussed in the article's assessments are aimed at reducing the number of Asian-Americans and nerdy introverts. The promoters always have a load of code words, but the college leadership and fundraisers know what they're doing.
Since the equal opportunity lawsuits were ended -- at request of elite college insiders -- by Bush 41 in the 1990s, the rates of Asian admissions in elite colleges went down and hit a ceiling at 15%. The University of California is looking constantly for ways to duplicate the success of ethnic cleansing at elite private schools.