Affirmative Action Isn’t The Problem

I believe everyone has already heard of the Supreme Court decision ruling over affirmative action, but if you haven’t, let me simplify it for you. The Supreme Court prohibited affirmative action in colleges meaning race can no longer be a factor in determining candidates to be accepted.

Many white people believed that college admissions were favored more towards people of color to increase racial diversity in schools. How will colleges ensure that they’re following the rule? Well, that’s easy; enrollment for applicants who are people of color will have to decrease, because how else are they supposed to respond to the rule? People use affirmative action to excuse why they were denied from a school, instead of taking accountability and looking at their own applications and what they could do to improve.

This rule is doing much more harm than good, and I wish people would realize that legacy admissions do much more harm than affirmative action. Unlike legacy admissions, race doesn’t surpass your academic performance; students with alumni parents get accepted even if their applications are flawed. This concept is most prominent in Ivy League, with legacy admissions consisting more of wealthy white people. Just a couple of weeks ago, Harvard was sued again for their treatment of students with legacies.