Blog 14 EOTO and Mock Trial 4

 

There should be many factors into being accepted into college but race should not be one of them. Each year having a certain number of spots open for racial minorities takes away from the opportunities for hard-working candidates to have a shot at a prestigious school. In this case, 16 out of 100 seats were reserved for “Blacks, Asians, and American Indians' ' at the University of California Davis. The idea that some schools want to hit a “quota” to diversify their schools and not look at a candidate for their real academic achievements is unconstitutional and deserves to be heard today. Economically, schools that ultimately use the quota system will fail in the long run. Bakke, a prestigious white student, was denied twice due to this decision by the University of California Medical School despite having significantly higher MCAT scores and a higher overall grade point average. The argument here being made on my side is that the 14th Amendment clearly states that Americans in similar circumstances should be treated as equals. Title 6 of the Civil rights Act of 1964 says that institutions that receive funds from the Federal Government cannot discriminate on the basis of race. By focusing on race for admissions, this school should fully lose its Government funding. The immense cost to run a school of this size is based on hard-working American people who deserve to have their money put into school systems and towards a fair and equal admissions process. I am not saying that major universities including the University of California should not be diverse but people from all economic backgrounds deserve to have an equal opportunity without having to worry if they are going to make the other 84 spots. In this situation, Bakke is being denied a great education due to a direct violation of the 14th Amendment which has made such tremendous strides up to this case. In the long run, if decisions continue within schools allowing this to happen, those schools will see a dramatic decrease in applicants and acceptances which leads to a lower overall yearly revenue. In other words, schools with this quota system will fail. 

 

Economically schools with a quota system have it in place to benefit a certain race and lose money each year due to it. For students applying to know that there is a chance that the prestigious university they applied to will fail them due to race and schools trying to meet quotas is frightening. It's not only failing that student… It is failing the entire school system as we know it. A system not based on race but on academics and school achievements will be economically beneficial in the long run. This country was founded on the land of opportunity and we are not giving the American people the benefit of that promise.