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Originally posted by 2017law
I have watched my non-white friends, with lower grades, lower SAT scores, and less activities get into schools when I haven't. My younger sister was rejected from U of Florida b/c she was your average, white-Jewish girl and they didn't need any more of those. Her friend is a Hispanic-Jewish male, with lower scores and less activities and he was granted admission. UF has some diversity issues.
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I think most schools have some diversity issues.
I go to the University of Wisconsin. For those of you who don't remember, it's the school that pasted a black man's face into a sea of white ones on an application booklet in order to make the school seem more "diverse." Right now there is a huge push to get more minority applicants at the school, and while I think that's a good idea in theory, I'm not sure the school is going about it in the best way. Not only do minorities get higher consideration when they apply to the school, but they also get much higher consideration when they apply for any campus job or position of authority that puts them in the public eye -- RA, tour guide -- and there are huge amounts of money spent on multicultural programming, a number that is probably disproportionate to the number of minorities at the school. (We also have people called "multicultural liaisons" and "LGBT liaisons" who are students paid to put on programming aimed at minorities, and they organize things every month, which I think is a good idea in theory -- but hardly anybody shows up!) This really creates a culture of division between the "majority" and the "minority," which I think is more harmful than not having enough minorities in the first place. It leads to a lot of bitterness and increases the attitude that most of the minorities couldn't get into the school in the first place without the help of their skin color, and that they "don't really deserve to be there," which makes the campus atmosphere towards minorities that much worse.
There needs to be a better way to go about improving the diversity of our school -- this can't be the best way.