Let’s Smash the College Admissions Process

[BidenPresident]

Within days or weeks, the Supreme Court is going to render a decision on the future of affirmative action in higher ed. If things go as expected, conservatives will be cheering as these policies are struck down — and progressives will be wailing.

In 2017 research led by Raj Chetty found that students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times as likely to get admitted into the Ivy League than students from families making less than $30,000 a year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/opinion/college-admissions-affirmative-action.html

 

[Tinkerpeach]

Well of course, if you are successful in life odds are you are a better parent also

 

[BidenPresident]

"As Kahlenberg wrote in The Economist in 2018, social science research “finds that today, being economically disadvantaged in America poses seven times as large an obstacle to high student achievement as does race.”

 

[BidenPresident]

Well of course, if you are successful in life odds are you are a better parent also

What does that have to do with the topic of college admission?

 

[Tinkerpeach]

What does that have to do with the topic of college admission?

Because kids who are raised better tend to have better grades making admission easier

 

[BidenPresident]

Because kids who are raised better tend to have better grades making admission easier

Yet all statistics prove that false.

 

[anonymoose]

In 2017 research led by Raj Chetty found that students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times as likely to get admitted into the Ivy League than students from families making less than $30,000 a year.

So what's your point?

 

[BidenPresident]

So what's your point?

You are extremely stupid. Not saying that to be mean. You have below average intelligence.

 

[anonymoose]

Yet all statistics prove that false.

^ BP thinks kids from the ghetto who are gangbangers that rarely go to class are raised with higher moral values.

 

[BidenPresident]

^

Shut the fuck up you goddam asshole.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Within days or weeks, the Supreme Court is going to render a decision on the future of affirmative action in higher ed. If things go as expected, conservatives will be cheering as these policies are struck down — and progressives will be wailing.

In 2017 research led by Raj Chetty found that students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times as likely to get admitted into the Ivy League than students from families making less than $30,000 a year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/opinion/college-admissions-affirmative-action.html

What's your point?

 

[BidenPresident]

W

troll

 

[anonymoose]

What's your point?

troll

^ She obviously has none. I was wondering the same thing.

 

[BidenPresident]

^ .

duhhh i never learned how to read duhhhhh

 

[BidenPresident]

duhhh someone teach me how to read duhhh

what is the point...duhhhh...teacher help me....

 

[BidenPresident]

Why are right wing assholes like Gardner and anonymoose always proud to profess their lack of reading comprehension?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

duhhh someone teach me how to read duhhh

what is the point...duhhhh...teacher help me....

 

[BidenPresident]

[i

troll

 

[anonymoose]

Because kids who are raised better tend to have better grades making admission easier

Yet all statistics prove that false.

So show us *all* these statistics that kids who are raised better have worse grades.

 

[Lightbringer]

The Ivy League isn't about education, it's about making connections.