College Admissions Is Unfair

Affirmative Action in regards to college admissions is a ludicrous agenda due to its unfairness, it’s effect on race relations, and how it can make people fail. Diversity in a classroom may have its perks, but relying on diversity alone to provide a good learning environment is a hopeless cause. Like Robert Fullinwinder said,” The link between racial diversity and a better education is not strong enough to justify the very special urgency we attach to racial and ethnic representativeness in the university.”
Choosing to accept somebody solely on their race or gender is completely unfair. The goal is to create an environment full of knowledge to increase learning. Accepting somebody because their skin isn’t white or they are a woman over the

person who is academically successful is complete nonsense. If you want somebody to get smarter, you should surround them with more smart people. Now if the woman or person of color is just as successful or more successful than your typical white guy at the college, then they deserve to gain acceptance. We should be looking at academic merit and the background of a student. Like Terry Swenson mentioned, we should look at their parent’s educational background, what part of town they grew up in, and how they were raised.
Like I said earlier, accepting somebody because they aren’t white isn’t fair. It’s actually racist towards white people to accept someone of different ethnicity over them because we think they’ll have a better opinion. It also upsets me to know that I will never get into Harvard because I’m white. If I was a black man with the same credentials I would actually be favored. If I was a homosexual, I would be favored even more. The only way choosing a person of any race over a person of any other race to be fair, is to base it off of academic merit. If he’s black and has a bad ACT score, he doesn’t deserve to be accepted over anybody else with a 30 on the ACT.
If somebody is accepted based on their skin color alone, they could be going to a college that they don’t have the academic ability to handle. Terry Swenson mentions,” mismatches between students and institutions, which can lead to higher drop-out rates among minority students and less satisfactory experiences even for those who persist.” It’s not who you are, it’s what you’ve done.