Should Race and Gender factor into a College Admissions Process?
Should someone be rejected because they are a certain race or gender? The answer is no. Colleges should look at a person's intellect not color. They should look at if a student takes advanced courses, not gender. Colleges should not be allowed to factor a student's race and gender into the admissions process because a person's race has no effect on the person's intelligence, the color of a student’s skin is something someone is born with and has no control over, and it is not fair that someone gets in instead of someone else because of money, race, legacy, or gender rather than merit.
Someone’s intelligence doesn’t have to do with race and gender. How would it feel to get rejected from the school of ones dreams because the student was not the race the college was looking for even though the student is more intelligent. The 14th amendment was written to give equal protection to everyone. So every state should guarantee the same rights, privileges and protection to all citizens. When a college is choosing between a student of a certain race and another student of a different race with the same intelligence, should they not have the same chance of getting in? Instead they choose the minority to create diversity. Even though the 14th amendment gives equal protection to all.
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All those things are all part of a student identity including race. Colleges don’t deny students for being too short or having blue eyes. A student is born with a certain hair color, eye color so why does race matter so much? If colleges are trying to get rid of discrimination and racism, then why do they factor into the admissions process? Isn’t that just pointing out their race and discriminating against the majority. If everyone is equal and the same, then race should not even be an option it should be based on a student’s
Should someone be rejected because they are a certain race or gender? The answer is no. Colleges should look at a person's intellect not color. They should look at if a student takes advanced courses, not gender. Colleges should not be allowed to factor a student's race and gender into the admissions process because a person's race has no effect on the person's intelligence, the color of a student’s skin is something someone is born with and has no control over, and it is not fair that someone gets in instead of someone else because of money, race, legacy, or gender rather than merit.
Someone’s intelligence doesn’t have to do with race and gender. How would it feel to get rejected from the school of ones dreams because the student was not the race the college was looking for even though the student is more intelligent. The 14th amendment was written to give equal protection to everyone. So every state should guarantee the same rights, privileges and protection to all citizens. When a college is choosing between a student of a certain race and another student of a different race with the same intelligence, should they not have the same chance of getting in? Instead they choose the minority to create diversity. Even though the 14th amendment gives equal protection to all.
Hurley, …show more content…
All those things are all part of a student identity including race. Colleges don’t deny students for being too short or having blue eyes. A student is born with a certain hair color, eye color so why does race matter so much? If colleges are trying to get rid of discrimination and racism, then why do they factor into the admissions process? Isn’t that just pointing out their race and discriminating against the majority. If everyone is equal and the same, then race should not even be an option it should be based on a student’s