Pre-Empting Equality - by Peter Venetoklis

Pre-Empting Equality - by Peter

"...Columbia University, one of the eight Ivy League schools that stand at the pinnacle of tertiary education in America (in reputation, at least), is permanently dropping the standardized testing requirement from its admissions process.
...Allow me to cynic-splain this action....

• Columbia's Class of 2025's demographic mix is 54% white, 28% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 18% black, and 4% native American. Note the >100% tally, which reflects both the classification of Hispanics as "white" and the ability to choose more than one of these categories.
• For the purposes of comparison, the US is 59% white-not-Hispanic, 19% Hispanic, 14% black, 6% Asian, and 1% native American. 3% report as multi-racial.

If Columbia's goal is to overweight minorities, it has succeeded...
So, why the big change in the admissions policy? Why eliminate a standardized metric?
Two words: Supreme Court...