Athletic ability, race, and family connections don’t have anything to do with academics, writes TomJoyceSports. 'In turn, academic institutions shouldn’t use them in their admissions decisions. They should simply take the best students.'
ver the next few weeks, the NCAA's"March Madness" will give some of the best men’s college basketball players the chance to shine on the national stage.
At the same time, however, some of the players participating in this tournament are part of a major problem with the higher education system at large: an unfair admissions process. Put simply, colleges don’t always admit the best students available. Alongside race-based affirmative action and legacy admissions, college sports affords America a broken college admissions system.
So, not only do most athletic teams drive up the cost of tuition and fees at their respective schools, but they also take away spots from more qualified students. This was also part of the so-called in 2019. Some of those fraudulently admitted to elite colleges got in as fake members of sports teams.is another atrocious way that schools keep the best and brightest out. It results in discrimination against white and Asian students in favor of black, Hispanic, and Native American students with lower test scores. It’s a racist policy in that it deliberately harms members of two racial groups and denies qualified students the academic opportunity they deserve for the benefit of other groups.
Once affirmative action students get into a school, they’re less likely to graduate than their peers. The reason for that: If someone gets accepted to a school because of affirmative action, he or she is not qualified to be at that school. And when someone drops out of college, even an elite college, odds are that person willAdditionally, legacy admissions are a form of affirmative action for rich people. Legacy admissions give preference to people with family connections to a school.
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