The people for whom I felt sorry on Blue Books are southpaws. When they write, the ink/pencil smears all over the place.
Posted on 05/26/2025 4:25:20 AM PDT by karpov
In 2023, the Supreme Court rendered a 6-3 decision that effectively outlawed affirmative-action policies in college admissions, finding in favor of groups representing qualified students whose applications were rejected at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. But, as he often does, Chief Justice John Roberts left a loophole. It allows colleges to continue their discriminatory admissions policies if they desire, and Roberts made sure to point at it in the decision. He stressed that universities can still take into account “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.”
It took Harvard less than a day to signal that it had heard Roberts loud and clear. In the university’s public response to the decision, officials quoted only one line from it: Roberts’s loophole. In the sentence immediately following that quote, Harvard said, “We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision.” Wink wink.
So, affirmative action will live on at America’s leading universities. Instead of giving minority applicants a bonus for checking the right boxes on the demographic questionnaire, however, colleges will simply move those considerations over to the “personal statement” component of the application package.
Many years ago, the personal statement, or admissions essay, was the part of the application where prospective students could make admissions committees aware of merits that might not show up on academic transcripts. But, since the institutionalization of affirmative action, this once-dynamic genre has hardened into a formulaic exercise in pandering for extra points. Recent research published in the Indiana Law Journal proves it.
In that study, Sonja Starr aimed to determine whether reference to race or identity in essay prompts or personal statements themselves had increased since 2023, when Roberts announced the loophole.
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Learn a trade.
Kids dont know how to write anyway. Perhaps we could just ask about their feelings in a text.
My daughter was at a Penn State alumni group meeting because she entered a paper for a scholarship. Her rival was a special needs girl who had won the previous year. My daughter spent hours crafting her paper. Alas, the award went to the other girl. At the meeting the award was presented and they were supposed to say something about the winning submission. Neither the committee or the special needs girl knew what the paper was about. We left.
They should have the applicants submit the essay in a Blue Books.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now (because of ChatGPT) Blue Books Are Back.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4319076/posts
Spoiler alert: they’re not going to get rid of these essays.
Admission essays, interviews,, SAT scores etc will not matter as long as the admission board is looking for brainwashed leftist students.
You can change all of the procedures, but if the folks running the show are agenda driven leftists, you will only have them admit like minded students from their feeder boarding schools up in the northeast.
It’s been that way for decades.
Malta and Epstein Island’s perverts and “parents”
should NOT rule the American People and its military.
I saw that last night. I think I had a second or two of Blue Book PTSD. I hated those things.
BTTT
What were her “special needs”? More fake “autism”?
I remember blue books. I was taking a final exam once and we had to discuss a topic in blue books. I was on my second blue book and in the middle of a page, in the middle of a paragraph, I wrote, “Sir, are you actually reading this crap.” The Prof called me at 3 AM to let me know he WAS reading my “crap” and said it made his night. BTW, I got an A.
LOL!
My daughter got partial credit on a math exam extra credit question when asked about Newton deriving something related to wine and couldn’t quite figure out the answer so said something about not drinking and deriving.
The people for whom I felt sorry on Blue Books are southpaws. When they write, the ink/pencil smears all over the place.
Spoiler alert: they’re not going to get rid of these essays.
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We’re not that helpless.
If the college is government run, the voters can maker them eliminate the essays.
For private and democrat-run public colleges, the penalties for unlawful discrimination can be doubled, tripled, etc, if an essay is fould to have been the vehicle for the unlawful discrimination.
Sorry for the early morning bad spelling, but the point has been made.
“Chief Justice John Roberts left a loophole. It allows colleges to continue their discriminatory admissions policies if they desire”
The head of the Supreme Clowns of the US continues his inane leadership.
FOR EVERY “FOREIGN” STUDENT SITTING IN A SEAT-—AN AMERICAN STUDENT DOES NOT DO SO
should be based solely on test scores.
Anything else is subject to bias.
We CANNOT end discrimination by discriminating.
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