A Confusing New World for College Applicants

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In a landmark ruling last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and banned the use of affirmative action in college admissions.
The decision eliminated the most powerful tool for ensuring diversity on America’s college campuses and forced college admission officers and high school seniors to figure out what the college admissions process should look like when race cannot be taken into account.
Jessica Cheung, a producer on “The Daily,” explains how, over the past year, both students and college officials have tried to navigate the new rules.
Guest: Jessica Cheung (www.nytimes.co...) , a producer on “The Daily” for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• The first high-school seniors to apply to college since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision have had to sort through a morass of conflicting guidance (www.nytimes.co...) .
• From June: The Supreme Court rejected affirmative action programs (www.nytimes.co...) at Harvard and U.N.C.
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@Sashas594 7 месяцев назад

As long as race is a factor it’s a racism no matter how you define it.

@thrasher606 8 месяцев назад

Jesus Christ, the instructor "helping" the students sounds so dumb.

@catherinesmith312 8 месяцев назад

“Amicus” brief not “Ameecus”. This brief has been discussed practically every time this case is discussed. You’re the New York Times! Act like you know what you’re talking about!

@samikshalingan 7 месяцев назад

I think when ethnicity is a key aspect of an applicant’s identity and story, we should definitely share that and connect our ethnicities to who we are. I do not, however, support stating your race just to say your race in the hopes that it benefits you, and this goes for students of color as well as white students in my opinion. As a student who applied to colleges this school year, I definitely shared my ethnicity and involvement in my ethnic community, and I think it showed the schools that have accepted me so far that I offer a fresh perspective and that I value my cultural roots and heritage, not just that I would help them achieve some race quota or make them seem more “diverse” or “inclusive”.

@hannahconroy 8 месяцев назад

This is a helpful and informative episode. thank you! My compassion and best wishes for high school students navigating all of this!

@jon9625 9 месяцев назад

Is it really that difficult to judge a person on their abilities, achievements and contributions rather than their racial genetic make-up

@mensrea1251 8 месяцев назад

It isn’t. But admitting student candidates purely on merit would end up with most of these elite institutions filled with majority Asian and Caucasian students. Whether that end result is desirable or not is probably a matter of perspective.

@kylinwanderlust 8 месяцев назад

@@mensrea1251if Asians and Caucasians do better, they should be treated fairly as well. The society can help the other groups you think are less competitive due to "historical reasons" in all the process of their education, instead of just creating intervention in a specific moment which is the moment of the college admission.

@wooramee 9 месяцев назад

kinda funky to have some stems on the intro song missing. Mainly the drums.

@Pafemanti 8 месяцев назад

Reframing: race ≠ ethnicity. Nothing about the current landscape says you can't discuss ethnicity. "Black American" is an ethnicity, same as "Trinidadian-American," "Bolivian-American," "Turkish-American," and so on. "White" is not an ethnicity, but "Irish-American" or "Appalachian" or "Cajun" sure are. If we reframe how we imagine Blackness as being an ethnicity, rather than just a race, we can certainly keep talking about it. And part of the experience of such an ethnicity is in fact racialized. If we arrive at talking about this from that angle, there's no argument anymore that anybody is playing the race card-we are now firmly on the territory of lived experience.