Let this sink in for a moment! One of the lefty ivy league universities admits that diversity admissions is no better than merit admission.
Their argument is based on shameful racism!
They are not looking for diversity of thought, knowledge and experience, but diversity in skin color! Apprehensible!
Thes universities are also violating what they call "Supreme Court banning race-conscious admissions".
It appears this is a deeply flawed study! However, this study also exposes the "high degree of arbitrariness" in selecting top candidates!
"Critics of affirmative action in higher education have argued that the policy deprives more qualified students of a spot at a university or college. A new study by Cornell researchers finds that ignoring race leads to an admitted class that is much less diverse, but with similar academic credentials. ..."
From the archive:
"Each year, selective American colleges sort through tens of thousands of applications to identify a first-year class that displays both academic merit and diversity. ... Most recently, longstanding debates over affirmative action culminated in the Supreme Court banning race-conscious admissions. Colleges have explored machine learning (ML) models to address the issues of scale and missing test scores, often via ranking algorithms intended to allow human reviewers to focus attention on ‘top’ applicants. However, the Court’s ruling will force changes to these models, which were previously able to consider race as a factor in ranking. ... We seek to address this by quantifying the impact of different admission policies on the applications prioritized for review. We show that removing race data from a previously developed applicant ranking algorithm reduces the diversity of the top-ranked pool of applicants without meaningfully increasing the academic merit of that pool. We further measure the impact of policy change on individuals by quantifying arbitrariness in applicant rank. We find that any given policy has a high degree of arbitrariness (i.e. at most 9% of applicants are consistently ranked in the top 20%), and that removing race data from the ranking algorithm increases arbitrariness in outcomes for most applicants."
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