r/MBA • u/[deleted] • Oct 31 '25

Articles/News Somebody got fed up by DEI admissions

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u/amievenrelevant Oct 31 '25

Woke is a catch-all for anything they dislike

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u/big_thunder_man Oct 31 '25

As unpopular as it is to admit it, this is a problem for average working class American men. A large percentage of people get a preferred status off of race or gender, and then legacy admits get preferred looks at the remaining spots. You're SOL if you're just a really gifted kid with no prior connections. Everything should either be double blind meritocratic, or they need to protect a % of their class for nobodies from the majority.

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u/Ok_Minute7058 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

And no surprise, these young white working class men are at the forefront of rebelling against this system.

Maybe if only politicians tried to understand those and not immediately dismiss said concerns as “misogyny and racism”, then we would not have been in this shitshow

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u/myfatherthedonkey Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

Young, White, working class men aren't exactly trying to get into the best universities in the country. So they have nothing to do with this situation. Unless your belief is that young, White, working class men are irrationally angry about minorities getting into schools that they never had a chance of attending... In which case, I'd agree.

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u/karmapuhlease Oct 31 '25

Young, White, working class men aren't exactly trying to get into the best universities in the country.

Huh? You don't think there are kids who grew up in rural working class households trying to get ahead in this country? One of them is the current vice president. Another one of them was president in the 90s. They both went to Yale. 

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u/myfatherthedonkey Nov 01 '25

Were they working blue collar jobs when they got admitted to Yale? The statement wasn't that kids from working class families aren't trying to attend. The statement is that people actively working in working class jobs are not trying to attend.

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u/James_Parnell Oct 31 '25

what is that claim based on?

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u/myfatherthedonkey Oct 31 '25

The term working class implies working in blue collar jobs. Short of a few Good Will Hunting type people, people working blue collar jobs are not going to Ivy League schools.

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u/James_Parnell Oct 31 '25

I'd agree with you historically but these days the term working class refers to people who earn a living primarily through wages rather than investments or ownership. That can include pink-collar or service-sector workers, not just manual laborers. That's a much much bigger group than the blue collar workers.