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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 128477" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>I think quota rules are a necessary evil. Admissions have never ever been fair for every single individual. In the past schools were predominately filled with kids that came from white privilege. Now we know that diversity is better for the overall learning experience.</p><p></p><p>I have been in academia at a small college in the past and I know that schools have a variety of reasons for choosing who they do and that it is different for every school. Some schools want to make sure they don't end up predominately Asian. Others do not want to become 80% female. Others still struggle with the good old boy white insider's club. My daughter, for instance, was accepted at an elite New England school because they were short on geographic diversity and needed a few students from the South. I am sure she got in ahead of a lot of students with better scores. But the challenge is to give as diverse a population as possible access to the place where they can best thrive. That is different from decades ago where college admission was the reward for being born in the right family or having more money or advantages. The way I would justify my daughter's acceptance would be to point to the final result. She graduated from that college at the top of her class.</p><p></p><p>Having said all this, I do not know if Stanford is doing anything shady or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 128477, member: 1640"] I think quota rules are a necessary evil. Admissions have never ever been fair for every single individual. In the past schools were predominately filled with kids that came from white privilege. Now we know that diversity is better for the overall learning experience. I have been in academia at a small college in the past and I know that schools have a variety of reasons for choosing who they do and that it is different for every school. Some schools want to make sure they don't end up predominately Asian. Others do not want to become 80% female. Others still struggle with the good old boy white insider's club. My daughter, for instance, was accepted at an elite New England school because they were short on geographic diversity and needed a few students from the South. I am sure she got in ahead of a lot of students with better scores. But the challenge is to give as diverse a population as possible access to the place where they can best thrive. That is different from decades ago where college admission was the reward for being born in the right family or having more money or advantages. The way I would justify my daughter's acceptance would be to point to the final result. She graduated from that college at the top of her class. Having said all this, I do not know if Stanford is doing anything shady or not. [/QUOTE]
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