Yale Student Newspaper "In first Yale class since the end of affirmative action, Black and Latine enrollment share remains stable"

I think what Yale admissions is doing to maintain a class demographic that mirrors the county's demographics is good because:

1. The students accepted, regardless of their race, surpass the school's required threshold for academic capability. These schools have an abundance of applicants who have been deemed academically capable of succeeding at their institutions. So, why should anyone other than the school decide that it's more important to admit individual students who may possess unnecessary and surplus academic capability when the school has other priorities for its class composition?

2. Biases and disparities exist in the pre-college education system, such as educational and economic disparities, implicit biases in education, and standardized testing. Failing to address these biases and disparities prevents truly meritocratic admissions. Unless you believe nepotism, which could be considered an extreme and opposite form of these disparities, is somehow a fundamental aspect of meritocracy, you should understand why not completely addressing existing biases and disparities, and allowing them to perpetuate to newer generations of students, is unmeritocratic. Unless there's a way to address these biases and disparities and make things as meritocratic as possible from pre-K through 12, then school admissions offices should be allowed to compensate for this. Again, despite a surplus of academically capable students, those accepted, regardless of their race, are deemed strong enough academically to succeed at the school they're accepted to.

3. While it might be at the expense of individual students, a class demographic that mirrors the general population allows elite universities to achieve their societal and educational missions of "improving the world today and for future generations through outstanding research and scholarship, education, preservation, and practice." Elite universities are places with very high concentrations of scarce educational resources, such as certain facilities and experienced academics in specific fields. Making it so that whoever has the highest raw academic capability score gets a seat not only opens the door to questions of how to measure academic ability in a fair and meritocratic way but is probably unproductive in advancing certain schools' mission statements. When you consider how certain schools receive donations and possibly other sources of revenue to further their goal of achieving their mission statement, which usually involves helping broader society, which I believe requires UN-esque, or even US Senate-esque representation of everyone within that society. To ignore this, means holding the view that elite schools are nothing more than just an expressway to a certain salary or status in society. They should not prioritize incentives for an individual applicant at the expense of their mission statement. Again, considering that once a prospective applicant has surpassed the school's academic capability threshold, and considering certain schools' mission statements, it would be irrational to prioritize this. The desire for a laissez-faire approach to admissions, where instead of the government not interfering, it's the schools that are expected to not interfere and to avoid creating a class demographic that mirrors the general population, is an unfitting desire for something as consequential as academia and is not sensible in two ways. One, all accepted students meet academic capability requirements, and two, merit doesn't truly exist due to the previously stated reasons. For something as important to our society as academia, it's essential for all demographics to be represented and have access to certain scarce academic resources.

4. Just to joke, no one's donating two billion dollars to build a new lab and hire experienced professors just because someone who scored well on a high school exam when they were a teenager feels entitled to having, at the very least, three Lamborghinis in their bank account ten years later. This is the sentiment I get from people who have this burning desire and entitlement for certainty in college admissions, often after sheepishly studying and pursuing topics they're uninterested in. A football team doesn't work by finding eleven guys who weigh the absolute most and run the absolute fastest; it's a mix of different skills and abilities since there's a requirement for people who excel at different positions. Similarly, the top fraction of students with surplus academic capability will be accepted, and those with other skills will be accepted as well.