The key to surreptitious workarounds is to keep them surreptitious.
That may be the case for Georgetown University, which just had one of its former admissions officers acknowledge efforts to circumvent the Supreme Court’s rulings against the unconstitutional use of race in college admissions.
After the historic ruling in the Harvard and North Carolina cases barring the use of racial criteria in admissions, administrators and academics admitted what they had long denied: that race was having a major role in admissions.
In anticipation of the rulings, many schools eliminated standardized testing, including the California system. Without objective scores, there is less ability to identify the use of non-scholastic criteria for admissions. By eliminating or devaluing standardized testing, admissions offices can use the more subjective essays to achieve the same race-based results.
I wrote about how administrators were already preparing to use essays as an indirect way to achieve the same identifications and preferences in admissions. The essay “prompts” encourage students to effectively self-identify by discussing incidents where they faced discrimination. The shift to the essays would allow the removal of high-scoring students while elevating those with lower scores. That prediction was quickly confirmed, as top candidates were rejected based on their essays, while schools used the essays to flag their backgrounds.
The use of essays as a workaround was reinforced in the opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, who noted that minority students could still raise their own individual struggle with racial discrimination in essays. Yet Roberts stressed that schools cannot employ threshold classifications to give an advantage or disadvantage based on race.
In an interview on National Public Radio’s “Code Switch” show with its host Gene Demby, former Georgetown University admissions officer Aya Waller-Bey said the quiet part out loud.
Waller-Bey discussed “how admissions essays are used to help colleges bring in the type of students that they want.” Demby explores how, after the opinions, universities can still achieve “the kind of diversity that is seen as valuable and visible in the elite spaces.”
Waller-Bey reduced it to a single word: essays.
WALLER-BEY: Yeah, that’s an interesting question. I mean, I think, increasingly so universities have to really be mindful of their institutional priorities right now because of the constraints placed on by the federal administration. So I think identities such as first-gen and low-income are actually becoming incredibly important. I think admissions officers and universities are trying to figure out how to mark students in the process. How can we identify students? How could we categorize them in ways that are, like, compliant and, like, constitutional? You know, because they…
DEMBY: Right, they won’t get you, like…
WALLER-BEY: Sued.
DEMBY: …Flagged for – yeah, exactly.
… But the consequence is students are now saying, “OK, they need me to disclose so they can see me in this process. They need to know my background, my identity. They need to know I’m first-gen. They need to know I’m low-income. They need to know I’m Black. They need to know all these things so they can see me qualitatively now – right?” – because of the limitations post the 2023 race – decision on race-conscious admissions.
As a threshold issue, it is not just “constraints placed by the current federal administration” but the Constitution.
The use of essays as a system of racial identification was predictable. Roberts is right that students should be able to discuss their past challenges, and such experiences can be powerful demonstrations of character and leadership. However, the use of such essays for a “code switch” to maintain racial preferences is dishonest and unconstitutional.
The only way to preserve the important role of essays without creating a new race-based admissions system is to maintain transparency in the use of standardized scores.
As I have previously written, such personal statements can and should continue to offer value for admissions, as tie-breakers within established bands of objective scores. While grade point averages are important, GPAs have also been subject to grade inflation and there is inconsistency between high schools. That is why standardized testing should remain the primary, but not exclusive, measure for admissions. While scores should place students within bands of applicants, essays can move the ranking of students within those bands.
The NPR interview was merely an acknowledgment of what is already widely known about the use of essays by the same administrators in higher education to achieve the same race-based results. What remains unclear is whether donors and (in state schools) legislators will insist on greater transparency and objectivity in admissions.
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NEWSFLASH
“The War Powers Act is completely unconstitutional.”
– Marco Rubio
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Marco Rubio agrees with me. Finally! “The executive power is vested in a President of the United States.” The President is the Commander-In-Chief. Period. The legislative and judicial branches possess NO executive power and no power to command the military. The legislative branch has the power to declare war; that is all, so go declare war. The legislative branch has no power to amend the Constitution. The War Powers Act is completely unconstitutional, as are the following:
Admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, CRT, DEI, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, PBS, NPR, Fed, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Congress declares war, did you catch that part genius?
SS
So declare it, Einstein.
President Donald J. Trump is the Commander-in-Chief of all military and security forces, and all of the executive power is vested ONLY in a President of the United States.
Dont call me Einstein, you are mixing me up with your neocon friends.
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] “To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; . . .” – Article I, Section 8, Clause 11
The words you used are not in the document. —Sal Sar
the prez has 60 days……. where were you when obamao used it????
The use of neocon shows the indoctrination you so gladly embrace. America does not need people like you, daily flights leaving, bye
Next, Turley will rant that colleges using in-person interviews for admissions is unconstitutional because colleges can use it to figure out the applicant’s race.
Colleges can select students however they please
If they stop accepting Government funding
Beyond that Turley notes and you amplify
You can make it illegal for private actors to discriminate
But you can not prevent it if someone wishes to do so
Maybe the ayotollah will open a university and call Iranian university on all the land owned by Columbia. Maybe united Arab emirates school of technology and Columbia owns a Lotta land.
They woudl all go BK in a trice if they stopped accepting fed$
SS
No. … they can’t. Discriminating based on skin color is unconstitutional.
Turley just reported what the administrator admitted doing to circumvent law.
If that is what they did, they should be sued. I have had AA against me my ENTIRE LIFE, I have no idea how many opportunities I may have been denied because I am a white male. I know for a fact my college curriculum and grades were far superior to many accepted to medical school 30 years ago, and I wasn’t, but I can’t prove it. Bet there were dozens of instances of me being discriminated against because i’m white
Don’t expect universities to follow the law.
But this administration has finally stepped in to do something.
I am not tired of winning.
No–don’t expect Trump-appointed judges, vetted by the ultra right wing Federalist Society, and who were willing to lie about Roe v. Wade being settled law pursuant to the doctrine of stare decisis, just to get onto the SCOTUS, to do everything possible to dismantle diversity in college admissions by calling it “racist”, and therefore unconstitutional. Turley says that it “may be the case” that essays are used to give minority students an advantage–he cites one person–who was only at Georgetown–and what Turley wrote is according to just this one person. Therefore, who says this allegedly illegal standard is routinely used at Georgetown, much less anywhere else? But that’s not what Turley is paid to write about. Turley tries to argue “without objective scores, there is less ability to identify the use of non-scholastic criteria for admissions. By eliminating or devaluing standardized testing, admissions offices can use the more subjective essays to achieve the same race-based results.”
First of all, it has been proven that standardized testing is NOT “objective”–studies consistentlty show that minority students are clearly disadvantaged–which IS the point for Turley trying to argue that standardized testing should prevail over other criteria, such as life experiences as documented in essays. (another MAGA theme–throw out the rules—whatever works to get what you want is good and WILL BE defended by MAGA media). Secondly, who is to say what “scholastic criteria” should prevail? Only in MAGAverse, where it is important to keep emphasizing MAGA themes–to keep the disciples believing, the theme of victimization has to be emphasized–in this piece, whites are victims of “reverse racism”, doled out by colleges that dare to use criteria that do not give whites an advantage which they should, naturally, have, because they do better on standardized testing. Therefore, standardized testing should be the most important admission criteria. BS!
How many times does one particular blogger on this site use the phrase “Democrat hegemony”? I lost count. Democrats do NOT control the White House, the Senate or the House–but the victimization theme continues anyway. According to this person, DEMOCRATS are the ones abusing power–how outrageous! Trump is pushing the limits and Republicans are letting him–tried to overturn birthright citizenship via an Executive Order, tore down part of the White House to build a vanity project, claiming it would be paid for by donors–now, Republicans are demanding that taxpayers come up with $1 billion to pay for the project that is wildly unpopular and which would destroy the ambiance of the Executive Mansion. We don’t have money for school lunches for poor kids, but we DO have $1 billion a day or more for a war of choice based on lies. Now that the malignant narcissist is facing defeat in November, his hand-picked SCOTUS has given Republicans a path to rig the midterms to keep power–despite 2/3 of the country disapproving of them and Trump. Republicans are taking the unprecedented step of gerrymandering months before the midterms. See, according to the SCOTUS, gerrymandering to reflect the racial composition in a state is unconstitutional, but not if Republicans do it. In Louisiana, 43,000 early ballots have been cast, and the LA governor is trying to throw them out and start over–all to keep the most unpopular POTUS in power and deny the people a voice by rigging the election. The disciples are victims–just tune into MAGA media for daily affirmation. Then, there’s the billionaire class spending an estimated $14 Million just in the State of Indiana to attack incumbent Republicans who voted down the Trump mandate to try to redistrict. So, $14 Million was spent to get different Republicans to replace incumbent Republicans on the ballot just because the incumbent Republicans dared to vote consistently with the wishes of their constituents and against Trump. All for the ego of the most- unpopular POTUS in US history.
The US is a “victim” of Iran–based on what, exactly? Certainly not Iran having a nuclear weapon or the ability to send it over here. But does that stop the lying about Iran being a nuclear threat to the US or Trump being a “victim” of unfair press coverage over lying about this, lying about alleged “succcess” in the war he started–in fact, lying about it being a war in the first place. If it were true that Iran is a nuclear threat–which our own intelligence says it is not, then that would be the result of Trump tearing up the JCPOA, which was working. Before this war, the Strait of Hormuz was open and now it is closed. Gas prices were below $3 a gallon, and now they are way over $4 a gallon, which is costing the price of groceries and other goods to skyrocket. All because of Trump and his ego. He has no idea how to end this war he started.
Other MAGA victimization themes–Trump is the victim of “unfair” mainstream media that dares to challenge the daily lies put out by him and his syncophatic toadies, so the billionaire class set up MAGA media, solely to defend Trump and keep him in power. Whiskey Pete has denied press access to Pentagon briefings to media that won’t sign an agreement to only publish information cleared by his office in advance. How about using the FCC to harass ABC because Melania didn’t like something Jimmy Kimmel said? So much for the First Amendment and freedom of the press. How about using the DOJ to go after James Comey over a seashell design or using the DOJ to go after Trump’s perceived enemies? Democrat hegemony indeed!
BS and a major case of TDS. Dropping standardized testing and using other indicators for admission have resulted in major universities starting ‘remedial math’ courses and other high school level courses since the preparedness of their student body has declined.
And the reason these courses and necessary and many students are not prepared is not the fault of the students, but is the fault of our secondary education system being completely dominated by the far left, particularly the teachers unions.
Anon– “secondary education system being completely dominated by the far left, particularly the teachers unions.”
True. A friend who goes to a very conservative church in a conservative community was surprised when 25 young women in her church went to a No Kings event. But, she explained, they were all teachers. Restore education; abolish teacher unions.
TLDR and also TLAI (to long absolutely insane). If you’re on the left, you are anti-America period. Talking is over, the right won. Time for socialists to leave America or be deported. End of story.
Posting anonymously sure saves embarrassment don’t it!
Talking stupid using one’s real name would prove the very point being argued were it done in a face to face interview.
Kool Aid drinkers would not get very far before being rumbled by those that had to listen to such drivel as you offer.
You wrote: “Other MAGA victimization themes…” and go on to list all the Democrat talking points. Call the waaambulance.
btw, the Press are still free to lie all they want — and they do, daily!
ask members of the Press how free they were during the hostile Obama/Holder administration (spying, jailing, prosecuting)
but, of course you never heard a peep about any of that, did ya?
“During the Obama administration, there was a significant increase in the use of the Espionage Act to prosecute individuals who leaked information to the press, with at least seven prosecutions occurring under this law. The administration’s actions included aggressive surveillance of journalists and their sources, which raised concerns about press freedom and the protection of whistleblowers.”
Too bad it’s not as easy to agree on what it should take to get into college as is it to agree on what students aren’t getting out of college.
The controversy over admissions would vanish in just a few years if colleges hired qualified instructors and maintained firm standards of academic performance. Very quickly students who don’t belong will be long — gone.
Old fool they’re getting weed, gay marriage, genderless people, anti citizen, anti constitution and more. What’s not to like?
Did anyone seriously think that the Supreme court ruling on the non-constitutionality of race-based admissions would change the value system of admissions officers? That they would read the ruling and realize that they were so wrong?
Max Planck observed the same phenomena in the development of science as new discoveries required a change in old models but old scientists still clung to their old beliefs. “An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.” In other words, if change is to occur in college admissions, it will require a lot of retirements.
The Constitution is perfect and was written to stand in perpetuity for the ages.
Any flaws are in the people whom the Founders intended would be good, moral, rational, and noble people as “ourselves and our posterity.”
Education is nowhere in the Constitution and is not mandated.
Purveyors of education have a constitutionally protected right and freedom to function as a free enterprise in the free markets of the private sector without governmental interference from federal and/or state entities.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The American Constitution is one of the most important documents in history. However, it was created by humans, so, saying “The Constitution is perfect” is obviously incorrect. The “purveyor’s” of education, receiving funds form taxpayers, have an obligation to be truthful, and to provide students with information beneficial to Americans and our republic. If they do not, the public may be ill equipped to discern when the judiciary fails in their responsibilities.
There is no “education” in the Constitution; it is unconstitutional to tax for, fund, or regulate education.
If free market free enterprises are capable of providing food, shelter, and transportation, they are eminently capable of providing education.
Purveyors of education have a constitutionally protected right and freedom, a “liberty,” to function as a free enterprise in the free markets of the private sector without governmental interference from federal and/or state entities; they enjoy “the equal protection of the laws.”
Since they, the purveyors of education, operate as free enterprises in the free markets of the private sector, their only obligation is to the owners of those enterprises, that is to say, EPS.
Pastors, preachers, and priests may supplicate for peace, love, and charity.
Why is the most transparent administration in the history of the Universe hiding a study that found benefits to vaccines?
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/trump-admin-censors-more-studies-conflicting-with-rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-views/
@Anonymous
I used to love ArsTechnica, they used to be a vibrant source for technology news. They are pretty much also just a propaganda machine now, no different than SlashDot; and this, after they were sold to corporate entities. Some of us are not nearly as stupid as you think, do better.
Or perhaps you are too young to know what your sources used to be, before they were purchased by the corporations you weakly and ignorantly decry, which would scarcely be a surprise. Sharing links from ArsTechnica is sharing links from any other profoundly wealthy and leftist source, even if it’s just by proxy. You all are so confused, truly.
It is deeply concerning, because we don’t know what we are going to do with you. I can at least assure you that this will not include the murder that you all fantasize about. But your lives may not be as great as you imagined, and it is your fault, not ours.
James,
Thank you for pointing out the leftist bias of that link.
Vaccines having a benefit doesn’t mean they don’t cause problems. Drugs have side effects and for some people the benefit outweighs the risk. Drug companies downplay and hide the risk. Drug companys have admitted under oath there are zero studies showing vaccines are safe.
Ininformed BS. Drug safety must be substantiated with data to get FDS approval for a drug.
Safety is defined numerically in term of a very low probability of harmful effect. An example would be 5 cases per million. Are we going to deny the benefits of the drug to a million to protect 5 from harm? How much individual harm would arise from withholding the drug? If the answer is 1250, then you now understand what goes into drug safety decisions.
Drug safety doesn’t imply absolute safety for every last individual taking the drug. It means that denying the drug would cause more misery.
“Yeah … I think, I mean … I know.” What a representative of a so-called institution of learning – higher or lower! It appears that speaking well wasn’t a qualification for the DEI job. He or she, with a name like Aya who knows, came up with the idea on her/his own? Or was it dictated by the DEI thugs from above?
Are you talking about RFK Jr not being able to talk? Or trump? Neither can so I don’t quite get your meaning.
James Carville, famous communist, can talk @ 1:40:
When a person with TDS criticizes the president’s speaking ability, it is clear that the critic values process over results. We have had huge quantities of fine speech accompanied by criminal action, ineptitude, and discrimination. President Trump provides results favorable to Americans to a degree unprecedented. In spite of his verbal quirks, he is also charismatic, because he speaks honestly to the public.
Except when he has screwed up. He never owns it.
thetennants1970,
Reads more like Kamala Harris word salad.
College admissions should be based on:
• The college defines an objective, measurable standard of preparation for admission
• Every student who meets the standard is guaranteed admission
This would get rid of the elitism and closet-reverse-racism, as well as agism.
Education must be PRIVATIZED, leaving execution to the professionals and removing it from the illegal and unconstitutional communists.
Purveyors of educational products have the 14th Amendment right to enjoy their “liberty” to operate a free enterprise in the free markets of the free private sector without any facet, aspect, or degree of illegal interference by any governmental agency.
boring. alright Friedman. any public good is publicly funded. roads, schools, military etc… if you hate America you can leave
Or, actual Americans can put America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights while abrogating and annihilating communism in education and everywhere else. I mean, communism is unconstitutional, right, comrade?
NPR may not be taxed for, funded, or regulated per Article 1, Section 8.
DEBT, DEFENSE, AND GENERAL WELFARE
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Article 1, Section 8
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States;….
“A1, S8 doesn’t exist.”
Here you go (below). Perhaps instead of our Constitution, you were searching the document that inspires your personal loyalty, the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
Constitution of the United States
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text
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Article I
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Section 8: Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings;-And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Great! You’re really good at this. Now tell ’em how the 1st Amendment freedom of speech and press is not qualified and is absolute and that defamation, or slander and libel, constitutes speech and that defamation laws constitute unconstitutional abridgement of speech and press.
Then demonstrate how Social Security and Medicare are irrefutably unconstitutional per Article 1, Section 8, and benefit a mere 18.7% of the population and will never constitute “general Welfare,” aka ALL, OR THE WHOLE, WELL PROCEED, such as roads, water, post office, electricity, police, fire, sewer, etc.
This is really fun!
Welfare references the happiness, dissatisfaction or an emotional temperature of citizens. It’s general and nonspecific welfare.
Do you write SciFi screenplays in Hollyweird?
Try reading the Constitution.
General is all, or the whole.
Wel is well.
Fare is proceed.
All Well Proceed, emphasis on ALL, not some, one, or a few.
General welfare—not specific, particular, or individual welfare; not charity; and not favor.
Can you read? General welfare.
Ideally 1A matters are political issues and not people? Imo
What in the —- does that rubbish mean?
Defamation etc. Or maybe you thought it was defecation?
A1 article
1A amendment
Thank you wannutono
A captain, NYPD, was demoted to 911 calls after saying mamdani is nonsense and dems a waste of human life.
Moral Turpitude Clause.
I wonder….. do schools make any attempt to verify the statements made in essays? Can essays simply be lifted from every American idol sob story to claim entitlement to admission based on “overcoming hardship”? Or, more to the point, has college admission processes become so hopelessly focused on matters other than intellectual ability to do the work as to be worthless?
Kids are using AIs to write these essays. It’s just playing the game, departing further from authenticity.
Anti-plagiarism software can’t detect a paragraph written by an AI, because the AI’s process of generating text is probabilistic. By contrast, copy and paste is an exact copying process (deterministic).
garyesq2k2,
It gets worse, UCLA grad brazenly shows off ChatGPT that did his assignments for him — and critics aren’t happy: ‘We’re so cooked’
https://nypost.com/2025/06/26/tech/ucla-grad-brazenly-shows-off-chatgpt-that-did-his-assignments-for-him-and-critics-arent-happy-were-so-cooked/
ChatGPT must be sued into penury for ADDICTING all Americans!
Maybe I’m cynical…but I just assume these schools employ MANY techniques to circumvent the law. They generally don’t even hide it. There are never any consequences for them.
Seems an awful lot like coercion to me, and coercion is not legal, strictly speaking. Are the modern left capable of doing anything honestly, without exploitation?
Coercion? Having to write an essay is coercion? Or it could be a way to determine character without using race.
@Anonymous
No, but being asked to include very personal information in an essay and that being a requirement for admittance certainly smacks of coercion, and that is *already* illegal, no Trump required.
I know you’re just a troll and being disruptive, literally to no meaningful end, not here, but maybe rethink your life and expand your tiny brain. I know that is asking a lot.
James,
That is an interesting point. What if the personal information was traumatic?
Funny thing, thinking on it, being required to write an essay and “prompted” to describe an incident of discrimination, I am not so sure they would like my essay.
I have been discriminated twice.
Once for a job. I was not a dark enough shade of brown.
The other time, being a straight male.
Wonder how that would go over.
“being asked to include very personal information in an essay and that being a requirement for admittance certainly smacks of coercion,”
It seems to me that GWU would be setting themselves up for serious problems solely on the basis of the SCOTUS decision if they tried to do this. What criteria would they use when evaluating the essays? If some applicants mentioned PI clearly indicating race in an essay, and a statistical analysis of admissions showed that there was a clear trend toward admitting essayists who thereby indicated that they members of “minority races”, how would that not also be considered a race-based admissions policy? If GWU really wanted to continue this travesty, would they not be at less risk by conducting in depth interviews of every applicant, in place of any testing or applicant-submitted material at all? If they do not have time to do that, how would they know whether the essayist was truthful? Suppose a non-minority applicant to GWU composed an essay whining about its terrible childhood and adolescence as an impoverished, parent-abused, picked-upon, transgender, Hispano-African victim? If GWU declined admission on the basis of an investigation that debunked that account, would they not set themselves up for litigation if they failed to investigate all such essays and condition admissions on the results of those investigations (which would likely take a huge amount of time)?
I Don Wannutono,
“Suppose a non-minority applicant to GWU composed an essay whining about its terrible childhood and adolescence as an impoverished, parent-abused, picked-upon, transgender, Hispano-African victim?”
First, if you wrote that intentionally as humorous or not, I still got a chuckle out of it!
Secondly, you are right. As I mentioned to James, I have been discriminated against twice. That was at least 20 years ago. Other than my word, they would just have to accept it as truthful.
Or, they could just as arbitrarily reject it.
If I did go to college, I would just have AI write my essays, papers for me.
Hey, here’s an idea. Let’s have all incoming professorships awarded on the basis of essay results. Essays consist of contemporary polemic topics like transgenderism, AI cheating, political redistricting, abortion, elections security, Iran, Israel, etc.’
When you have the President of Harvard (Claudine Gay) resigning over allegations of plagiarism involving someone’ else’s published work, you know we are heading upstream with only one paddle. If the remaining paddle is caught in volatile currents or a strainer, will our students be able to creatively fathom a solution and come out ahead–with their OWN independent, developed comprehension?
(confession: Algebra, trig were OK for me;- integral calculus…not so much….)
Or they could just present their CV like everyone else. Show their skill and knowledge etc. English professors could write an essay. Should they be made to write it without using apps like Grammarly or Dragon?
–I was being sarcastic. But I agree with your English professor’s “exam”–completed right in front of the ole Proctor! (remember those?)
“Let’s have all incoming professorships awarded on the basis of essay results. Essays consist of contemporary polemic topics like transgenderism, AI cheating, political redistricting, abortion, elections security, Iran, Israel, etc.’”
Are you certain this is not already happening? I certainly see very little information about higher education or educators currently that could be considered even anecdotal evidence to the contrary…
Your writing skills (certainly reflective of your speaking skills) appear as quite superior.
However good or bad my writing skills are, those were fully developed before my very brief and thoroughly reluctant stint in college. 🙂
The Left don’t believe the rules apply to them. And they certainly don’t give a damn about the Constitution. They never ask, What is the law? They only ask, Can we get away with it? A
Suits should be filed and regulations issued to stop the practice of unconstitutional race discrimination in college admissions, whether achieved directly or by subterfuge. The use of essays should not have a disparate impact on the racial mix of those admitted.
What most people don’t know is that even the SATs and ACTs were altered over the decades from the 1980s on to improve the scores for women and blacks. It used to be that questions were included in the tests based solely on how they predicted grades. But over time questions were included based on how well different groups did on those questions. For example, including information on dates in the SAT achievement test were dropped because women tended to do relatively poorly on dates. The SAT Analogies was dropped because white men did particularly well on that question. The bottom line is that despite altering the tests, leftists still weren’t able to get the outcomes they wanted so they eventually just decided to drop the tests completely.
I readily admit that while I aced mathematics in grade school, my grades in higher math continued to slip in college. I often wondered why. At the time, it was attributed by doctors to a serious brain concussion following a head injury. But I never accepted that, since I continued to perform well in other subjects.
Don’t want to get off on a tangent here, but I saw this:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/mounting-case-against-notion-that-boys-are-born-better-at-math/
“What most people don’t know is that even the SATs and ACTs were altered over the decades from the 1980s on to improve the scores for women and blacks. ”
I was aware that the tests had been “dumbed down” in general, I don’t believe I was every told that the specific goal was what you describe, although that is perfectly plausible. On the rare occasions that I tell people what my SAT scores were (I don’t do that very often; imo at some fairly early point in adulthood, one’s real world accomplishments make any previous aptitude test or scholastic grade results almost completely irrelevant) I make certain to mention that mine were on the “old” test regime, i.e. 1966 & 1967.
The old book “The Bell Curve” reads like prophecy now
Sal Sar
I feel like it’s, like, about how kbj got them A grades. I’m feeling like cisgender today. You know, that’s impotent to me.
PT, do you have trouble grading essays?
Quality education in K-12 schools is a problem. Poverty regions become poverty traps for all races, ethnicities, genders, religions. Poverty traps incubate crime, cutting corners, opportunism, cynicism and ill will.
Crime is at its lowest in any point in history. by your rationale schools must be great
liar
Crime is influenced by many factors. For example, vigorous deportations or incarcerations of illegal alien criminals may greatly reduce crime, irrespective of school performance.
I’m from planet urff—>No crime. The crime is hideous now. An alien trawler collected criminals and dropped them here imo.
You’re right. Quality of education IS a problem. American schools focus on Leftist indoctrination rather than academics. The Federal DOE should be absolutely disbanded and control should be returned to the states.
Maybe you no read good. The schools are great beacuse of the leftists. How do we know? Crime is down. What states have the worst most undereducated people? Red states.
“I’m feeling like cisgender today. You know, that’s impotent to me.”
Cisgender and impotence: perfect together ;-?
Writing a coherent essay will disqualify one for admission.
Just imagine how the left would howl and how many lawsuits would be filed if these admissions people were plotting how to use essays to get around the civil rights act and deny blacks from collage admissions…
O T — Speaking of hypocrisy, we all know how Democratic politicians consider the J6 demonstrators/rioters to be “insurrectionists” for challenging the 2020 Presidential election. Top officials in the Democratic Party in Michigan are now challenging the results of a party convention that produced results they don’t like. See CBS News, “Michigan Democratic members voice concerns over convention votes, results” May 5, 2026 @ 5:45 pm EDT/CBS Detroit.
yup totally alike. voice concerns is equal to attempted insurrection
“…for challenging the 2020 Presidential election.”
Excuse me? Challenging? They descended on Congress to intimidate them into not counting Biden votes. They broke windows, they threatened to kill Vice President Pence, they beat and injured Capitol Police protecting the Capital. That is the very definition of Insurrection.
Quite trying to rewrite history. They were insurrectionist and should have been hung.