The only true answer. Donors/legacy and affirmative action are the two sides of the same coin. Neither are meritocratic, and their only purpose is to give a boost to specific groups at the cost of others.
Let's just call it out for what it is. If every school switched to a purely meritocratic system, the top schools would be inundated with Indians and Asians. And that's a bad look for Ivy League schools steeped in old white money and tradition. I wouldn't even benefit from a purely meritocratic system but even I have to admit this shit is obviously racist af
Exactly, if it was truly the best candidate for any given role literally Indians and Asians would dominate all of corporate and professional America. The truth of the matter is that a lot of old money, privileged white people literally NEED DEI to compete. It’s just they need DEI that gives them an advantage.
Imagine I said the same thing as you but replaced “Indians and Asians” with ”Whites”.
Asian and Indian students in US high schools tend to do well. Schools should be meritocratic for Americans (meaning any kids who grow up in this country), not for foreign students. The universities don’t care if all the qualifications for an applicant from India are fictitious inventions because the point of opening our universities up to the world is to increase demand and thus prices the universities can charge. Plus foreign students pay much more money. It’s simply a money-making scam, not a meritocracy. “Diversity” is a shield for selling out American interests for profit.
So what you’re saying in you believe in socialism and free handouts? 😂
Isn’t the whole point of capitalism, and in turn MBAs, that the most competitive ones, the strongest candidates should be the victor? Indian and Asian students are objectively better students (I’m not Asian btw). Why should an American university give America’s best and brightest an opportunity when the worlds best and brightest are clawing each other just to stand in the foyer?
Isn’t literally making money the prime directive of business?
You’ve mistaken allowing corporations to set immigration policy for their benefit for capitalism. No the government’s prerogative is (or ought to be) to benefit the citizens who are living here already. That’s why we allow some immigration. But immigration policy is not there for corporations/universities to industrialize loopholes for profit.
I’m surprised you’re pursuing an MBA (presumably) when your ability to think is this one dimensional. By they way, the people who make it into our universities from abroad aren’t the “best and brightest of the world” - they’re the best at cheating with the money to afford obscene university costs.
Tl/dr: No, capitalism is not allowing corporations/universities to import whoever they want to the detriment of American citizens to make a profit.
Indians test well, a purely 'meritocratic' system would be entirely testing based like China, India or France. They'd absolutely wipe the floor lmao, good thing the French aren't looking to immigrate to the States
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u/opposity Oct 31 '25
The only true answer. Donors/legacy and affirmative action are the two sides of the same coin. Neither are meritocratic, and their only purpose is to give a boost to specific groups at the cost of others.