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Date Posted: 12:44:50 04/09/24 Tue
Thanks for the link, joisey. I think that, in time, Princeton's announcement regarding legacies will serve a similar role as Dartmouth's did regarding mandatory SAT scores.
The woke social justice warrior culture on elite American campuses has become so out of control that it will take a number of high profile events to get administrators and boards to even ask themselves, "What the hell are we doing?"
We've had five of those events in the last six months:
(1) the overtly anti-semitic protests at many campuses, most notably Harvard
(2) the unsightly Congressional testimony from the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT
(3) the resignation of President Gay, which is related but separate and distinct from (2). President Gay tripped up on Capitol Hill, but it was the plagiarism which was fatal
(4) Dartmouth reinstating mandatory SAT scores while announcing the results of an internal data-driven, results-oriented analysis showing that SAT optional actually hurts lower income applicants
(5) Princeton, the one American university which all others aspire to be in terms of alumni loyalty, putting a flag into the ground and saying, "We're gonna keep doing what we're doing"
Combine that with the Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action and this has been the most important six months in American higher education since affirmative action first became the universal policy in the Sixties and early Seventies.
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