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Granted, due to the educational rewards of a culturally diverse learning environment in which students are forced to interact with students of different life experiences, there is still room for race to be a factor in the college admissions process. However, it should cease to hold the dominant place it currently enjoys. Universities should recognize that, while race-based admissions are an effective way to guarantee a certain measure of diversity, socioeconomic-based preference is a better way to guarantee fairness and a meaningful range of experiences among their student bodies...
...should be the goal of our nation’s universities to cultivate a society in which all are granted an equal opportunity to succeed, and there are few tools more potent with which to address inequality than higher education. And while race still plays a role in determining an individual’s prospects in current American society, socioeconomic status is an even more meaningful determinant...
...role as a leader among universities, Harvard ought to take the initiative in refashioning affirmative action along the lines of Obama’s post-racial vision. Race-based affirmative action has played an important role over the course of its four-decade existence. But socioeconomic-based affirmative action is now the more effective way to fight for social justice...
...poor people are minorities. Proponents of socioeconomic affirmative action do not seem to give enough consideration to these two crucial facts in their well-meaning proposition that we transition to an admissions process that places greater emphasis on the socioeconomic background of candidates, while diminishing the importance of race...
...differences in the American life experienced between races are not simply the derivatives of wealth inequality. In fact, this wealth inequality is derivative to complex historical and social influences that cannot be corrected for simply with an evaluation of one’s social and economic status that devalues race. Socioeconomic affirmative action considers metrics that encapsulate only part of the experience of being a minority in America...