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   Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 00:47:43 JST Dana Fried

   Because of our ratfuck Supreme Court, colleges can no longer consider membership in historically underrepresented groups when deciding who to admit.

   This was a change largely pushed by white conservatives.

   I find a [very] small consolation in the fact that MIT's first "post-woke" class of freshmen actually has *fewer* white students than last year's (the rest of the numbers are predictably awful):

   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rxvd2z6ldo

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     Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 00:47:43 JST Dana Fried

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     In part their numbers are so low because unlike other top schools, the traditional affirmative action program benefitting white students - legacy admissions - is not officially a practice at MIT.