Harvard Discriminates Against Middle-Class Kids – WSJ

When the Supreme Court struck down racial preferences in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused her colleagues of having let-them-eat-cake obliviousness. Her assessment of the case is as confused as the metaphor. It is Harvard and other elite schools that have been behaving like snooty royalty. Now they will no longer be able to have their cake and eat it too.

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard exposed how Ivy League admissions favored not only blacks and Hispanics but also the children of affluent alumni and donors at the expense of others especially Asian-Americans. Harvard could boast of its commitment to equity even as its admissions were anything but equitable.

via www.wsj.com

This is the story to follow. We have, as a Republican entity, pretty much one chance to get things right, and I fear that moment has come and gone. O Well.

But there is still a small chance that somehow the American academy will decide 80 percent merit is better than oh 30 percent. But how you get from here to there. You can’t get there from here.

But the sassy gal who wrote this is smart and mean. I could never be that mean.