Affirmative Action

In my personal opinion i think that it's up to the school to decide what kind of student (race,ethnicity, gender) they want to accept into their university. Whatever the university puts into its mission statement is what the university should stand by. If the university decides to only accept Asians into their college then so be it, that's completely up to them because its their university, their rules, so they can make whatever kind of decisions they want whether its fair or not simple because its THEIR university, not the governments or the courts or the peoples university. Someone owns the college and they view their college in a certain way so they are going to have it that way despite what some people think of it. In all honesty why would someone even want to go to a college that doesn't want them... it doesn't make sense to me.

Stepping back though and going back to the main point, I think its more fair for the university's to look at students as a whole, rather than tear them apart and break them down to numbers. I would rather a university look at me as a student with a decent GPA, bad ACT score, a student who has improved through his high school career, an athlete, and an employed student. To me that sounds a lot better than being classified as... 25? 37? 7? Both ways have the possibility of giving the university what they want but i would rather someone be able to tell me I can't go to their university because my scores weren't good enough and I wasn't a dedicated student, instead of telling me i fell 3 points short of being accepted because to me that means absolutely nothing.

side note: I applaud the students who fight university's because they find it unfair that they don't accepted, but the way i see it is that i would much rather go to a worse school that wants me to be there, than a better school that doesn't want me and doesn't think I'm good enough for them




Mr. Kramer i hope you read this