Abolishing Affirmative Action Solves Nothing While potential college students fill out applications, a majority of the applicants will face the question regarding their race. Most educational institutions often strive for blind admissions in order to establish a fair picking process. However, affirmative action has served as an exception because it allows universities to aid specifically minority students in need of educational opportunities compared to privileged students. Unfortunately, Caucasian applicants, who do not obtain any benefits from affirmative action, have blamed the process for their college rejections. Many of these students who claim to be “disadvantaged” have voiced their opinions to court, and the constant pattern of lawsuits
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Without affirmative action, how are minorities expected to overcome the striking disparities between minority students who attend community colleges and minority students who attend 4-year colleges? Data collected by the Georgetown Report finds that ever since 1995, “70 percent of all new black and Hispanic students” enroll in “open-access” institutions including community colleges. Meanwhile, Caucasian students like Abigail Fisher still dominate the enrollment spaces at more competitive, 4-year institutions such as Louisiana State University. In the end, the removal of affirmative action would only increase the number of enrolled white students at competitive institutions, which does not solve anything for white-dominated student …show more content…
The chances for minorities to expand from their current socio-economic statuses will unsurprisingly become slimmer than what they already are. But what more could people expect when the abolishment is intended to only satisfy people who belong to the majority. With alterations in admission reviews, Caucasian students like Abigail Fisher, who only possess a 3.59 GPA, would not even benefit from a university that was forced to strictly follow a 10 percent rule. As a result, abolishing affirmative action would not only decrease the chances of enrolling minorities but also the chances of enrolling Caucasian students of different class ranks. Thus, our future student bodies will only evolve to be more narrow with only top-tier white
Without affirmative action, how are minorities expected to overcome the striking disparities between minority students who attend community colleges and minority students who attend 4-year colleges? Data collected by the Georgetown Report finds that ever since 1995, “70 percent of all new black and Hispanic students” enroll in “open-access” institutions including community colleges. Meanwhile, Caucasian students like Abigail Fisher still dominate the enrollment spaces at more competitive, 4-year institutions such as Louisiana State University. In the end, the removal of affirmative action would only increase the number of enrolled white students at competitive institutions, which does not solve anything for white-dominated student …show more content…
The chances for minorities to expand from their current socio-economic statuses will unsurprisingly become slimmer than what they already are. But what more could people expect when the abolishment is intended to only satisfy people who belong to the majority. With alterations in admission reviews, Caucasian students like Abigail Fisher, who only possess a 3.59 GPA, would not even benefit from a university that was forced to strictly follow a 10 percent rule. As a result, abolishing affirmative action would not only decrease the chances of enrolling minorities but also the chances of enrolling Caucasian students of different class ranks. Thus, our future student bodies will only evolve to be more narrow with only top-tier white