“If they really want diversity, they should let in more low-income students, which will give them plenty of Latino and Black students anyway” --> Hits the nail on the head. Colleges are businesses mainly concerned with profit. Most schools actually want fewer low-income students, because they don’t pay full tuition. Hence, colleges value “demonstrated interest:” a proxy for wealth. Do you have the money to travel from far away from home? Can you hire a college counselor to help you write a compelling essay on your personal struggles? Colleges’ concern for the disenfranchised runs about as deep as their optics.
“And once they added in that only 1.5% of their faculty identified as conservative” --> indeed, there is almost certainly a strong effort to AVOID ideological diversity in elite colleges.
I wonder why lowering the voting age to 16 is so unpopular.
I believe in 'no taxation without representation' so I'm for lowering the voting age to whatever the legal age someone can work for an employer and pay state/federal taxes.
“If they really want diversity, they should let in more low-income students, which will give them plenty of Latino and Black students anyway” --> Hits the nail on the head. Colleges are businesses mainly concerned with profit. Most schools actually want fewer low-income students, because they don’t pay full tuition. Hence, colleges value “demonstrated interest:” a proxy for wealth. Do you have the money to travel from far away from home? Can you hire a college counselor to help you write a compelling essay on your personal struggles? Colleges’ concern for the disenfranchised runs about as deep as their optics.
“And once they added in that only 1.5% of their faculty identified as conservative” --> indeed, there is almost certainly a strong effort to AVOID ideological diversity in elite colleges.
I wonder why lowering the voting age to 16 is so unpopular.
I believe in 'no taxation without representation' so I'm for lowering the voting age to whatever the legal age someone can work for an employer and pay state/federal taxes.
I think people just think of 16 year olds as too stupid to vote
It might make the elites squirm, but Marc is right on this one yet again. Bravo