Essay On Affirmative Action In College

I am writing you this letter to express my concern about an issue regarding future college students, as myself. This issue is one that affects the probability of a student being admitted into college which I may have to face shortly. As I am aware, you are against affirmative action as I am too. I do not propose to sit here and waste your time about why affirmative action is good or bad but rather propose a compromise between the two sides. Affirmative action has its positives and its negatives as does everything but does one side outweigh the other; does discriminating against the majority justify expanding cultural diversity in the student body? Or should minority students be left to deal with applying to colleges without any help? This has been a very controversial issue since the University of California v. Bakke in 1978 (Gruhi, “The Impact of the Bakke Decision”) that has not been solved yet. This issue is one that can end up affecting various amounts of people but primarily: future college students, the institutes that they will be applying to and the field of work they will go into. I suggest …show more content…
University of Texas (Liptak, “Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas”). According The New York Times you stated that “this is affirmative action gone berserk” and declared it was “simply wrong” (Liptak) to which Ms. Fisher seems to agree with. Ms. Fisher said she was “disappointed that the Supreme Court [had] ruled that students applying to the University of Texas can be treated differently because of their race or ethnicity” and went on to say that she hopes “that the nation will one day move beyond affirmative action.” (Liptak, “Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas”). As previously stated, one is able to see that this so called compromise on affirmative action is not working and that something has to