FYI, these are the three amicus briefs that put forward the argument relating to how the lowering of academic admission standards in order to admit more minority candidates could result in a counter-intuitive effect... an increasing mismatch across all-tiers of schools between the academic capability of the minority admissions and the mean academic capability at the school
> In “competition mismatch”, students receiving large preferences are at a competitive disadvantage, tend to receive lower grades, and become academically discouraged, which can lead to switching to a less competitive field of study or dropping out of school. A common example of “competition mismatch” occurs in the sciences at selective schools.19 Students with an interest in science who are admitted to a very competitive school via a large preference tend to drop out of the sciences at a much higher rate than do otherwise similar
The reason this comes up in this argument is because for any racial admission preference to be constitutional there needs to be a compelling interest. U of Texas argues that the compelling interest is increased diversity, but these briefs argue that this method of increasing diversity can ultimately have negative effects.
There are a number of very common implications I hear often that I may want to ask a question on, but which are just indirect enough to be a little harder to find quotes for. I'm wondering at what point are they common enough to not need to provide notability for. To give examples, since I don'...
There are a number of very common implications I hear often that I may want to ask a question on, but which are just indirect enough to be a little harder to find quotes for. I'm wondering at what point are they common enough to not need to provide notability for. To give examples, since I don'...
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