After hearing aboutIt seems like colleges have been placing more and more emphasis on ethnicity during the application process. They keep wanting a more and more diverse student body. On applications they request that you state your race and religion, which I don't think should be considered at all during the application process. I think that scholarships should be given based on merit, not on race. By accepting more African Americans, Indians, and Asians just because they are diverse, colleges are making it increasingly harder for Caucasians to get in. I think that if one student is more qualified than another, they should be accepted rather than the less qualified student. If colleges accept racially diverse students over white students even if they aren't as smart, all they're going to get are African American, Asian, and Mexican students doing poorly in their classes. Students that weren't qualified to begin with are going to have a much harder time handling the workload and learning the material.
I don't think race should be considered at all in the applications. However, I do think that income and residency should be considered, which could in turn give blacks who might live in a poor neighborhood a better chance of getting in. I just don't think it would be fair to accept a black student whose parents are lawyers and make $200,000 a year instead of a white student whose parents didn't go to college and live in a trailer park. I think it's great that colleges want different races to be equally represented on their campus, but I don't think that students that aren't white should have an easier time getting in.
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This post would be much stronger if you linked to (and quoted from) a recent news article or study. Instead the writing is simply based upon your perceptions of what goes on behind closed doors in the college admissions process. That's a very thin basis for an argument.