This is just another case of good intentions that simply backfire.
Whenever affirmative action-based policies are followed it has led to lower grades, higher drop-out rates. These very policies backfire in drastic ways.
You now will have an academic mismatch. Therefore, the very folks that are intended to be helped by this are hurt; they then have to gravitate to lesser fields or studies than they intended in order to succeed, etc.
This is very evident in STEM fields — where minorities often exhibit more desire to enter than whites — but it reverses with affirmative action.
The studies all show this to be true. This is also another case of the Left not wanting to follow the ‘science’ or the evidence.
When more merit-based policies are followed more minority students are successful and have higher grades and graduate at higher rates. As one study even showed they now make the honor roll at a higher percentage. Because they tend then to go to other universities and succeed at a better rate than they otherwise would have.
The common example that is used to compare this to is with the mismatch when the NBA was allowing high school kids to be signed. The mismatch of kids of lesser merit than a Kobe or Lebron led to a huge mismatch and harmed the kids that were not at that required level to succeed.
People say they are not given the opportunity—but they went to high school and performed poorly enough not to be considered for an elite college. So, how are they expected to perform better at a higher level — just because they are given the opportunity to go — over a more qualified student? It does not work like that.
This is the same with legacy whites that have the same merit level as minority students that were denied admission — the grades and level of success are comparable.
So, now you have done more harm than good to two groups instead of just one group; you have disallowed a more merit-qualified student from a better opportunity.
If folks want to address why a student, of any color, is not successful they have to start at the root of the problem.
You do not all of a sudden fix a lifelong education, ambition, and drive problem by simply allowing them to a higher-level university than they deserve. This will not fix the problem — no matter what race is involved.
There are far too many examples of successful blacks at elite universities that were admitted on merit; and too many failures of white or Asian students that have plenty of merit. People need to be rewarded on merit and not rewarded for lack of it.
If universities are forced to lower their standards this is likely to bleed into the following occupations. You will have lesser talented lawyers, doctors, etc.
Just because someone wants to do a certain job does not mean they could ever be good at it — it simply does not work that way.
No one wants to have a crisis in the air and wonder if their pilot got their job not based on their merit. Or their surgeon, or their lawyer, etc.
People do not want any jackleg bricklayer doing their masonry.
Some folks are suited better to some disciplines than others and a lot of factors go into this. It is the same with education. What is the point of ‘forcing’ someone into a school and a field and a job that they are not really suited for and have not proven themselves to even warrant.
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