Affirmative Action

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by madmax
How do you know what someone will be doing 10 years from now?

I said "If." Of course you can't know.

Originally posted by PM_Mama00
You say it's necessary... well are those little squares in the box of "Race" necessary? What if they just eliminated that from applications? Then how does the university tell if someone is of a different race? Of course if they don't have an ethnic name that is.

They can make a reasonable guess at what race you are if you have a first name like "Aisha" . . . or a last name like "Chang" or "Gonzalez." Or for that matter, a last name like "Dimitroyovskaya." Of course you can't guess the color of everyone's skin by the name they have, but you can make a reasonable guess and be right on in most cases. The little box isn't the only clue to someone's race.

Not to mention the fact that every college I applied to had a "I prefer not to say" box in the race category, so if you wanted your race to not be factored in, you could check that.

Originally posted by LeslieAGD
Actually, more women are attending colleges than men these days.
I believe AA mainly becomes a gender issue when dealing with jobs.

True. Like I said above, Caucasian males are actually on the receiving end of affirmative action when it comes to college acceptances more than Caucasian women are. In college, white women are the "majority."

Edited to add: In college, white women are the majority . . . except at schools like Cal Tech or MIT where the student base has been historically male. Those are the few schools where being a woman will qualify you for AA points.