Strengthening affirmative action programs and fighting
discrimination present challenges to America's best private and
public universities. US college enrollments swelled from 2.6
million students in 1955 to 17.5 million by 2005. Ivy League
universities, specifically Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, face
significant challenges in maintaining their professed goal to
educate a reasonable number of students from all ethnic, racial,
religious, and socio-economic groups while maintaining the loyalty
of their alumni.
College admissions officers in these elite universities have the
daunting task of selecting a balanced student body. Added to their
challenges, the economic recession of 2008-2009 negatively impacted
potential applicants from lower-income families. Evidence suggests
that high Standard Aptitude Test (SAT) scores are correlated with a
family's socioeconomic status. Thus, the problem of selecting the
"best" students from an ever-increasing pool of applicants may
render standardized admissions tests a less desirable selection
mechanism.
The next admissions battle may be whether well-endowed
universities should commit themselves to a form of class-based
affirmative action in order to balance the socioeconomic advantages
of well-to-do families. Such a policy would improve prospects for
students who may have ambitions for an education that is beyond
their reach without preferential treatment. As in past decades,
admissions policies may remain a question of balances and
preferences. Nevertheless, the elite universities are handling
admission decisions with determination and far less prejudice than
in earlier eras.
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