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0 pointsbufferoverflow1y ago0 comments

> You misunderstand what Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is. It's not about favoring anyone despite qualifications and never has been.

Yes, it has. Look at the college admissions. The test score requirements for black students were way way lower than those for the Asian students in many universities and colleges. That's favoring people by their skin color.

Which is illegal since at least 1964.

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UncleMeat1y ago

College admissions have (until very recently) operated under a different jurisprudence than businesses.

icameron1y ago

Where can I look at these college test score requirements? I have never heard of such a thing besides minimum SAT score to be considered. Is that adjusted based solely on race at some university? Where?

brigandish1y ago

Probably in the NBER report[1] on the data that came out of the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case[2]. It's an interesting read, as is the other one on legacy applicants.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w29964

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...

piker1y ago

At the graduate level there are a number of resources which can illustrate the difference between admissions standards for people from “underrepresented minority” (URM) groups and non-URMs. They manifest as materially lower LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs for URMs. There are Supreme Court cases analyzing details, and prior to the most recent doctrine, the preferencing policies were totally open because SCOTUS blessed it in the case of law school admissions.

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