Progressives should not defend elite universities’ strong preference for rich white kids.
If elite universities eliminated preferences for ALDC, they’d have substantially more space in each incoming class for non-white applicants. Their insistence on maintaining these pseudo-colorblind preferences undermines their arguments about the need for affirmative action: They want to have their cake and eat it too, admitting a surfeit of rich white kids whose families canAdvertisement
Focusing solely on ALDC students, though, fails to capture the full scope of the problem. The issue is more fundamental. Ostensibly merit-based admissions, too, have a disparate impact on racial minorities who are traditionally underrepresented in higher education—namely Black, Hispanic, and Native students. Universities could dramatically increase the diversity of their student bodies by altering requirements for admission.
“There is,” he wrote, “nothing ancient, honorable, or constitutionally protected about selective admissions”; they simply help an institution preserve its eliteThe LSAT is a case in point. Most law schools require applicants to take the LSAT, though the test
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