Hi, while this may not be the best location for this question I do want to have to some extent an understanding behind the ideas of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. I have overall gotten a decent understandings of the case and the issues that SFA has presented towards Affirmative Action, but I specifically want to understand the outline reasons that are pro-Affirmative Action. When I mean pro-AA I also acknowledge that such a stance might not be pro-Harvard, but I do wanna figure out the arguments that would against the banning of AA in this case. Thank you
Mankiw is the 11th most cited economist and the 9th most productive research economist in the world. His “Principles of Macroeconomic“ textbook is the best selling macroeconomics book in the world by far.
This man’s book writes the definitions of macroeconomics. The same way Campbell‘s book does for Biology and Halliday, Resnick, Walker do for physics.
If you think you understand inflation more than this guy, you technically can’t. His book is the reference for the first and second paragraph on the wikipedia page for “Inflation”.
EDIT: Timestamped link: https://youtu.be/HDKfdmbCuvw?t=31615
(ETA: no paywall) https://www.insider.com/college-board-sat-student-data-colleges-to-reject-students-admissions-2019-11
Jori Johnson took the practice SAT test as a high-school student outside Chicago. Brochures later arrived from Vanderbilt, Stanford, Northwestern and the University of Chicago.
The universities’ solicitations piqued her interest, and she eventually applied. A few months later, she was rejected by those and three other schools that had sought her application, she said. The high-school valedictorian’s test scores, while strong by most standards, were well below those of most students admitted to the several schools that had contacted her.
“A lot of the rejections came on the same day,” said Ms. Johnson, a 21-year-old senior film major at New York University, one of three schools that accepted her out of 10 applications. “I just stared at my computer and cried.”
The recruitment pitches didn’t help Ms. Johnson, but they did benefit the universities that sent them. Colleges rise in national rankings and reputation when they show data suggesting they are more selective. They can do that by rejecting more applicants, whether or not those candidates ever stood a chance. Some applicants, in effect, become unknowing pawns.
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Putting off grading.
AMA about college interviews or what your teachers are thinking.
Edit: I also went to the school I interview for so I guess you can ask me about that as well
