<p>article sounds interesting but apparently we have to pay to read it…</p>
<p>Will it help explain why this is posted on University of Florida?</p>
<p>Because UF utilizes the Holistic Admissions process.</p>
<p>Asian kids are complaining? Lol, they make up the majority of the population at the UCs. UF has like a 10% asian population. If affirmative action is too be blamed they should sue Stanford or the Ivies.</p>
<p>Yes, and so does every top 30 school, and I do not see them losing their prestige or selectivity…</p>
<p>UVA and W&M practice “Holistic Admissions” and they they are ranked 2 and 6 respectively for top public schools.</p>
<p>From the article:</p>
<p>“Several of the state’s most prominent Asian-American leaders, feeling that the university blindsided them by adopting the admissions policy with little advance notice of how it would affect Asian enrollments, have responded by blindsiding the university with a campaign of resistance involving legislative pressure, threats of litigation, and angry letters and phone calls from Asian-American parents and alumni.”</p>
<p>I thought I should explain why I believe the Asian Americans deserve justice. In my opinion Holistic Admissions violates the Equal Protection Clause. So for me this is a constitutional issue and not necessarily a political statement.</p>
<p>You can bring up the past, and all sorts of injustices that happend all day long, but it still does not change the fact that at this exact moment in time Holistic Admissions is hurting the Asian American applicants who just want a shot at the American Dream. No amount of Social Engineering bravado is going to change the fact that it is wrong, it violates the 14th Amendment, and can ultimately lead to mediocrity in the Admissions process.</p>