Should Race Based Affirmative Action In Universities Should Be Abolished

Many universities in the United States have adopted affirmative action policies in efforts to correct discrimination. Some of these policies are racially based and intended to give support to disadvantaged, historically-discriminated minorities. Although it may help a few, race based affirmative action in universities should be abolished because it is discriminatory and creates division, may actually be helpful affected minority students, and masks the real problem. Race based affirmative action is itself discriminatory and promotes division. Rather than judging applicants solely based on their academic ability, universities can also judge them based on their race, preferring certain races over others. To be specific, black and Hispanic university applicants must fulfill essentially lower requirements than that of whites and Asians. In fact, because of high percentages of Asian students in universities relative to the national population, …show more content…
Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and researcher Alexandria Walton Radford examined data on college applicants calculated that Asian needed nearly perfect SAT scores of 1550 to have the same chance of being accepted at a top private university as whites who scored 1410 and African-Americans who got 1100. Whites were three times, Hispanics six times, and blacks more than 15 times as likely to be accepted at a US university as Asians. It is of no surprise that aaaaaa Additionally, it further promotes division by reinforcing the stereotypes that blacks and Hispanics are incapable of entering universities without “handouts” and that Asians are strict, work-obsessed “model minorities” who end up actually having to follow the stereotype by working harder than others in order to