as affirmative action debate comes back, remember not to judge college pol on basis of the tiny tiny pct of colleges that are like harvard
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True, but they're also very much doing their own thing. The real affected area is, like, U Texas where the big lawsuit is from
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or maybe another way of saying it is, elite schools matter very much for a particular culture/political struggle, but not much broadly
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That's fair. I'd also argue that trying to set national policy on the basis of how it applies to a tiny sliver of a cultural battle is bad
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Dya think optimal Ivy AA policy differs than state schools? Or do you have a clear idea where AA is better or worse in some sense? (I don't)
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AA isn't really an area I specialize in, but my intuition is that it is a better idea at lower-ranked places for two reasons
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(lower-ranked and state) 1) one big ol inefficiency is skilled students who don't have cultural cap to jump through hoops. AA helps them
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2) privates have a lot more leeway on admissions. if they want more diverse students, they'll get them. AA ban just encourages workaround
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(there's evidence that some state schools do this too but there's less capacity to do so)
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*more than proportionately
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