Stanford just made tuition free for families earning less than $125,000 per year

Lifehack: get a job at Rice University (any job - maintenance, cafeteria worker, anything) and if your kid is accepted then they get free tuition.

Rice also offers free tuition to children of employees to Trinity University and Austin College. I know a guy who quit his decent job to work overnight shifts at Rice for $11/hour and send his two sons to those colleges tuition free.

 

What does this have to do with, as you call it, "the racist policies of using skin color as a factor." In the statement from Stanford, I don't recall the university mentioning race as a factor. However, you have. Please explain why. Thanks in advance.

 

My thoughts are why you couldn't start this thread off without race baiting... And do you actually no why affirmative action had to be implemented. Unless you agree with people being discriminated against because of their skin color.

That's the way it should be.

 

Race dominates your thoughts.

 

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   This is a brilliant example, thank you for bringing it up
   
   When NBA teams draft, do they just take the players that have the highest PPG-APG-RPG in college?
   
   Or do they consider other factors?

 

So bascally what you're saying is that relying on one metric alone is terrible - I completely agree. Using a single test on the grounds that it's "merit" whereas everything else is not is silly.

Do you think the Rockets considered race in additon to other factors when they drafted Yao Ming and signed Jeremy Lin?

How about the Bucks when they drafted Yi Jianlian?

 

You're only assuming they're more qualified... Unless you have concrete information to back that up.

 

Thanks for informing me about that.

Crazy what I was reading on the Harvard site. It almost looks like their prices are inflated massively due to grants. 65% of students received a grant that averaged over $46,000 last year. I think I read that correctly on their site.

 

Sam needs to lead an annual CF.net Haters Ball. I don't think anything is ever good enough for him lol.

 

Such a boring topic. We wouldn't have affirmative action if educational opportunities for all children were addressed at the primary and secondary levels. Kids that have a lot of support early do better than their counterparts and from that point forward get the best opportunities available to them and their peers. That has a dramatic cumulative effect by the time the senior year of high school comes around. Then consider the kids from one school district to another, the huge variances in the quality of education and opportunities that kids receive. Then after a decade of an unfair playing field for many students you want to just have a test and see who's in the science club to determine which students are most qualified? It's like giving someone a Ferrari and another person a Corolla and determining the best driver by who wins the race.

Snoopy if you think black and hispanic kids are inherently dumber then come out and say so. Don't hide behind statistics. Tell us all why blacks and hispanics score more poorly. Explain it and provide a solution rather than simply posting angry, race hustling threads about affirmative action without addressing the underlying problem. At this point your position seems to be that you don't give a damn about the rest of those kids, you just want to make sure Asians aren't affected. Grow up.

 

exactly. keep affirmative action programs, but rejigger them to focus on income rather than ethnicity.

 

What if the income is $125,001... then it's back to paying for everything 100%?

Something seems fishy there...

 

What if the legacy of America has been income based on ethnicity?

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

VIII. “Negro Poverty is not White Poverty”

 

They should have to pay something- school has to pay professors, workers- make it low-cost, or allow a loan system, but not totally free. Junior college, yes - college, no. Or, if it's free, they have to keep a B or above average- otherwise, you get a bunch of lazy idiots who don't deserve to be in college.

 

It's already been done in certain states. Like the UC system has essentially been an income-based affirmative action program for a decade because they legally cannot ask for or consider the race of applicants. Certain people just don't like the results.

 

7 countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free (or almost free)

Education should be free.