Overall, I'm very uncomfortable with this sort of affirmative action. Whether race-based or race-blind, perverting consistent assessment standards to increase diversity seems like a recipe for prejudice, as well as being fundamentally unjust.
I would rather see significant resources devoted to actually raising the academic performance of disadvantaged groups so that admission and college assessment can be performance based. I guess that's not the American way.
Unfortunately, this is the American way.
I would rather see significant resources devoted to actually raising the academic performance of disadvantaged groups so that admission and college assessment can be performance based.
Instead they roll out systems like Common Core in order to reduce the scores of higher performing schools in order to reduce the performance gap.
Removing white men is not a virtue
Good read, the use of race blind admissions has tended to backfire for universities seeking to increase diversity UCLA and Michigan both saw big drops in campus racial diversity after implementing race blind admissions.
Here's a related piece on "Race Blind Affirmative Action" - http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-case-for-race-blind-affirmative-action