The Pros And Cons Of Race Conscious Admissions

Imagine getting accepted into your dream college, because of your race, now imagine getting denied for the same reason. Although it may seem unlikely, Race conscious admissions is a recurring problem across America. In early years, the African-American community wasn’t represented in educational facilities, (John H. Bunzel 49) but after some peaceful protests, things started to change. In today’s world, racial equality has been the topic of discussion, due to many incidents. Although times have changed, some might say, there are still some minor issues. Many people debate that we are currently living in a “post-racial” society and we no longer need “race-conscious” admissions (David H. K. Nguyen* & LaWanda Ward, Abstract). However, Some universities

Low rates specifically in graduation may affect each individual minority group negatively causing doubt in the benefits they offer to an institution.When reviewing a student’s applications based on their academic performance, financial situations, or their backgrounds and how it corresponds to statistics could determine whether the student would be a decent candidate or not. Crazy right? Admissions officers recruit when exercising their discretionary authority (Bunzel 51 ). The undisputed truth is people can’t help their bias and when it comes down to it, it helps them make tough decisions. Statistics show that “students of color are more than likely to attend schools that are resource poor, and don't offer higher level academic programs that prepare students for college, and instead they are placed in vocational programs to learn about working” ( Nguyen & Ward 556). To increase graduation rates and decrease dropout rates they may take those specific statistics in mind for the sake of the reputation of their facility. University graduation rates of minorities continuously lag behind those of Caucasian students, “The completion rates of African American and Hispanic students were 47% and 46%, respectively, compared with about 67% for Whites (Tatiana Melguizo 215).”With statistics like these, if they are known by

Stage 6). Its where students of color turn to, especially “undecided” ones. Minority specific institutions may live up to past intentions of founders. Schools such as these may feel the obligation to acquire more students of color than white students that apply because it’s a historically black college. On the other hand, predominately white institutions may feel it is necessary to admit more minority students rather than white students because their institution is labeled a PWI, and they would like to add more diversity to their demographics. Oppositely, depending on they’re location, PWIs may look to maintain their high percentage of whites because of the surrounding population, vise versa for HBCUs in predominantly black areas. “Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic Serving Institutions and Historically Black Institutions in this analysis serve to distinct demographics, which is often defined by the racial centralization of a particular minority group through the historical preeminence