<p>I had the same thought and therefore the university becomes more appealing to everyone.</p>
<p>Ok....you all are thinking. There is a market for university diversity (in this case racial). UM (and most other U's) demand a certain quantity (ok...not exactly a "specific quantity" b/c that would be illegal) but a critical mass of URMs to create an educationally diverse environment. They demand that "quantity" at a certain academic level (measure of test scores, gpa etc). As academic qualification goes up, universities want more of those URMs. Draw it out on a graph. You suddenly have a quasi-demand curve.</p>
<p>You've already alluded to what the supply curve is in this case, the higher the academic qualifications, the lower the supply (quantity) of URMs available.</p>
<p>The two curves meet at an equilibrium that is BELOW what the university needs to create a diverse environment. They use AA to tinker w/ the supply curve to get the diverse environment they want. It doesn't really have anything to do w/ who deserves what, what's fair and what's not, long histories of slavery and oppression or any of that. Its about the U wanting a diverse environment, and the "market" not providing it w/o intervention.</p>
<p>This is the view of affirmative action that SCOTUS endorsed...that the diverse environment was such a compelling interest to allow what would normally be considered illegal discrimination (the tinkering w/ the supply curve). While the "U" also uses affirmative action for women and for poorer students, eliminating a race-based AA would not allow the University to work to create an ideal educational situation.</p>
<p>Sad reality of the world. Sigh.:)</p>
<p>Affirmative Action is gay, many years from now, people will wonder how retarded the educators/government officials of this generation must have been to allow something fundamentally wrong as Affirmative action to take place for so long.</p>
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<p>Thank you for that well learned opinion. <em>rolls eyes</em></p>
<p>Please...argue without being ignorant.</p>
<p>KB</p>
<p>Being Gay is wrong. Affirmative Action is wrong like being Gay is wrong. How clear do you want it? (<em>rolls eyes</em><-- I can't believe people still do this thing, how gay is that?)</p>
<p>Okay, who let the idiot get to this forum?</p>
<p>i really don't like the tone of your voice, mister outofstateorbust.....</p>