Comments on: Thoughts on admission: Contest mobility and its prospects http://unionstreet.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/thoughts-on-admission-contest-mobility-and-its-prospects/ Second-order observations on sociology, education, politics, culture, and whatever else catches my interest... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:02:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Matthew K. Tabor http://unionstreet.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/thoughts-on-admission-contest-mobility-and-its-prospects/#comment-77 Matthew K. Tabor Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:04:18 +0000 http://unionstreet.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/thoughts-on-admission-contest-mobility-and-its-prospects/#comment-77 I subscribe to a meritocratic system with admissions [and most everything] - I'm not especially supportive of synthetic attempts to affect social justice via college admissions. They don't work and, as Claude Steele and others have suggested, they often do a disservice to those who are supposed to benefit. Simply put, equality of opportunity, yes - guaranteeing an equal result, no. I subscribe to a meritocratic system with admissions [and most everything] - I’m not especially supportive of synthetic attempts to affect social justice via college admissions. They don’t work and, as Claude Steele and others have suggested, they often do a disservice to those who are supposed to benefit.

Simply put, equality of opportunity, yes - guaranteeing an equal result, no.

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