Quotas? Get real!
Dawn Turner Trice’s column “If college’s goal is diversity, race must be a factor” (Metro, Jan. 20) should be required reading for all parties weighing in on the current affirmative action flap.
The University of Michigan admissions system is not a quota system.
It is a system that simply weighs a wide range of factors in deciding whom to admit, as do all institutions of higher learning.
One could just as easily question whether it makes sense to award so many points for grade point averages and so few points for SAT and ACT scores.
Or one’s athleticism.
Or one’s musicality.
Twenty out of 150 points for being an underrepresented racial or ethnic minority? How much of a break is that?
And, at every institution there are well-qualified applicants who don’t get admitted.
My daughter was admitted to Brown but not to Duke.
Go figure.
And she would have been OK no matter where she went.
That’s not true for kids with the “wrong” ethnicity.
