Minorities getting the benefits

In many instances in America, preconceptions about minority races influence the way people treat the people of these minority groups. Because of these stereotypes, people are taunted every day, and put down, just because of the ethnicity that they were born with. These people have a harder time showing their personality due to the fact that people around them have already have preconceptions of how that person must be. One example of this is that universities in the U.S. give minority groups a boost on their college application. This kind of process is often called affirmative action; the idea of making sure that people of minority groups get into colleges, which frequently raises controversy.(add transition) Universities should not take race and gender into consideration in college applications because it can reduce the reputation of the school, gives minorities an unfair advantage to get into colleges, and causes unprepared minority students to drop out of college.

To begin with, race and gender should not be taken into consideration in universities because a university’s reputation can be tarnished because of racial and gender profiling. On npr.org a survey polling four hundred sixty-two admissions counselors resulted in one-fourth of the counselors saying they had been pressured by their faculty to accept students based things such as the income of the family and because of the atheletic attributes of the student. The counselors said that they accepted minorities despite the fact that they performed at a lower standard than the other students that have applied. This shows that regardless of their performance minority groups are being given priority in various universities. If these minorities are given admission and perform...

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...s a higher chance of dropping out of college. Even though affirmative action in schools may not be fully removed from university systems, if admissions counselors and university faculties start thinking of the disadvantages of affirmative action they will realise that it is in the benefit of the university that better educated non-minority students are getting a better chance of getting into a university of their choice. If you wish to change the way universities help minority students you can propose laws to your local senator, or congressman that be made to further prevent universities from further giving minority students an advantage; the results of these actions might be that, children planning on going to a certain university will know that everyone in the university was given the chance of being there because of their academic strength, and not on their race.