Admissions scam adds insult to injury for minority applicants by kadiatubman
In what a federal prosecutor called “the largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice,” dozens of people were charged in a bribery scheme to cheat on SAT and ACT entrance exams and buy admission to elite schools for the children of wealthy parents. For parents who don’t have that kind of money, or who wouldn’t engage in such chicanery, it was an occasion for outrage, as well as schadenfreude.
“These are things that have consistently been going on — maybe not that blatant — but now it’s just up in the air and out in public,” said Emmanuel Moses, assistant director of college guidance and transition at the Opportunity Network, a nonprofit helping 2,500 students who are either “underrepresented, first generation, low income [or from] immigrant households” with college and career access.
Although the college admission scandal doesn’t address access or race, Moses said, it gives affirmative action advocates “more evidence to say, see I told you.” “We can’t rely solely on affirmative action programs,” Bial told Yahoo News. “There’s lots of different factors that will allow you to create the kind of class you want. And that’s a subjective process. But when we discriminate intentionally or unintentionally based on privilege or race or gender or whatever we run into challenges.”
And it was open to the charge that aggressive recruitment of minorities amounted to “reverse discrimination” against whites. He said affirmative action is not the right way to counter inequities like those brought to light by the college cheating scandal. “When you have a system that’s completely closed like that, it really invites corruption,” said Sander.
Nicole Gon Ochi, a lawyer with AAJC, explained the group’s position: “Other aspects of the admissions policy, whether that be legacy admissions or whether that be the overuse of SAT scores or how admissions officers treat donors — some of those things which are not criminal and are just part of the admissions process that many universities accept as a valid part of the process — these more entrenched policies are what we need to be focused on in addition to some of this outrageous conduct,”...
Some of the students they work with come from remote parts of the city, says Goodloe. “They have to get up before the sunrise, and they get home when it’s dark in the wintertime. Who doesn’t want to help a kid like that? To help them score competitive to their much more affluent counterparts on the SAT and then get into the college with the types of SAT scores, the types of grades that the rest of the university-admitted students pass.
To level the playing field beyond affirmative action, schools have instituted “test-blind” admissions. Hampshire College in Massachusetts hasn’t looked at scores since it opened in 1970, declaring that “The tests more accurately reflect family economic status than potential for college success.” The University of Chicago also went test-optional “to enhance the accessibility of its undergraduate College for first-generation and low-income students.
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