School administrators will always find ways of admitting colored people who do not belong on campus.
Who truly "belongs" on Campus? I would say the black kid who got a 3.5 average and a 1500 on his SAT despite the rampant racism in this country and inadequate resources is more deserving than the Stressed Asian kid with a 3.9 and a 1570 whose Tiger Mom pressured him to the point he was going to crack.
Someone in my family got a 1600 on her SAT. She flunked out of University after one year because she really didn't have a work ethic. Really her parents' fault, they never made her get a part-time job, or any responsibilities. She's trying to put it back together now in Community College.
You miss the point of Affirmative Action. It's to compensate for 400 years of institutionalized racism by levelling the playing field.
Few hiring managers like being pressured to hire sub standard Negroes. This is why it is necessary to eliminate affirmative action in hiring decisions.
You work on the assumption that HR managers have a personal investment in who gets hired. "Gosh, I really, really hope that person works out."
Let me tell you how the hiring process works.
The HR Drown gets a stack full of resumes. All that really proves is who hired the best resume writer, it's not really a test of merit. Despite all your mewling about "Affirmative Action", surveys have found that minorities (including Asians) are less likely to get callbacks on resumes than white people. They found this out by sending out hundreds of resumes with identical qualifications, and the ones with white names like "Greg" or "Emily" got more callbacks.
Then we get to the interview process. The HR person isn't really the one who makes this call. Interviews these days are done by a committee. Again, all the interview proves is who is best geared towards answering stock questions. And yes, the hot black chick is probably going to do better than the ugly white guy with more experience.
The biggest beneficiaries of "Affirmative Action" haven't been black people, it's been white women. Of course, right now, we have nearly 10 million unfilled jobs. Hiring managers are happy to find anyone qualified and it's more typical for Zoomers to jump ship for a better offer at any time. That HR manager is more likely to bring in an H1B person from India to fill a job because they can't find a qualified American of any color willing to work for that kind of money. (You also have leverage over an H1B person, in that they can't quit for a better offer or they lose their immigration status.)
With 360,000 baby Boomers retiring every month, this is going to keep getting worse.
Now, as I have said, connections are more valuable than affirmative action. Two of the last three jobs I've gotten, were because someone who worked there recommended me.
So you keep fretting Jamal is going to get a job he doesn't deserve because he stuffed you in that locker in HS, but in the real world, many companies would be happy to have him.
When Negroes and Orientals attend the same schools the Orientals still tend to get better grades and better scores on mental aptitude tests. Negroes from rich families tend to get lower SAT scores than whites from poor families.
Again, more and more universities aren't requiring SAT's and ACT's, and we are all better off for it. I hope for the day those tests are cast into the dustbin of history.
The fucked up notion of saying to a 17-year-old, "This test will determine the entire trajectory of your life," is absurd.