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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (66790)1/18/2003 8:21:03 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Kind of difficult when the whole function of an admissions committee is to be discriminating. Is being a legacy more important that good grades? Is being well-rounded more important than brilliance in math? Is it important to get students from all around the country, or from different economic backgrounds? Race shades into so many other things.

Always surprising to find agreement with you. Exactly right.

It would be more constructive if admissions committees could be turned away from straight racial preferences, which are almost as harmful to those they admit as to those they deny, to a more proper kind of affirmative action -- finding very bright but under-prepared students and putting them through a very tough remedial course, so that those who passed were better prepared than most for their freshman year. Of course, this approach costs money.

Something must be wrong with the position of the moon tonight. I completely agree. Some private schools with which I'm familiar do some of this but not nearly enough. I'm sort of familiar with the work at City University of New York because my wife has taught in the system since the early 70s. The money is precisely the issue there. It's an index of the priorities placed on the spending of public dollars that's at stake. It still befuddles me why the arguments, in the 70s, that spending money on education reduces other costs down the road--prisons, police, etc.--and provides more productive citizens, why that argument failed and keeps failing. Well, I do know. Just pretending to a little gee whiz that's not there.
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