Two very dumb universities, brazen in every regard in their discrimination got called out and got their ass handed to them.
Everything I've read thus far indicates that both believed to their core they would never-ever be called on what they were doing.
Anyone who has paid even a modicum of attention to the fine print of alleged more selective universities knows that many give themselves a myriad of loopholes to their own public facing admissions standards. I suspect that both Harvard and UNC-CH could have made extremely basic policy changes that would have been defensible in every way, and instead they chose the blunt force discrimination path and got called on it.
I maintain that our world needs many more people of the type that graduate from programs offered at schools like K-State then we need Harvard Humanities and Social Sciences alums. 45.5% of the Harvard Class of '26 are in Humanities and Social Sciences. The remaining are spread out over STEM oriented, with 6% undecided. I would much prefer that our prestigious universities flip that number.
Maybe yet another common ground topic between us, old friend Dax!
I only slightly disagree…as a worthless state land grant school liberal arts undergraduate degree holder, I have this notion that the only people who have any business pursuing liberal arts degrees are those at the elite schools. The rest of us normal humans need to focus on vocational degrees in undergrad lest we be chained to student loan debt that we are unable to service. Of course, if you come from an affluent family and are already financially independent, knock yourself out and major in Philosophy at K-State if you want.
I tell my kids “you are not affluent, and you are not going to get into Harvard, so get a vocational/STEM degree.”
