Are we sending too many unprepared/underprepared students to college?

[Mwfan1921]

@roycroftmom

The auto-admit rule was established as a backdoor way of establishing racial and ethnic diversity at UT, without an explicit affirmative action program. It will be interesting to see what happens next year after more court rulings. Most faculty would prefer the school was able to choose its own students

I agree the faculty might prefer the school admit the class differently.

It will be interesting what happens next year with these two affirmative action case decisions, the consequences could run very deep and in ways we don’t yet foresee.

Assuming affirmative action is not allowed going forward, I was thinking that colleges could just rely more on the various college access organizations that tend to work with minorities and/or FGLI students. Questbridge, Posse, College Possible, ScholarMatch and similar orgs work with tens of thousands of these types of students, BUT, if affirmative action in college admissions is not legal, I am not sure a college access organization will be able to use race in their admission criteria (which many do).

WSJ had an article the other day about the ways colleges might diversify their applicant pools: here: WSJ - admission strategies