Diversity_Is_Essential

Diversity Is Essential Being a recent college graduate, I found this article on affirmative action in higher education very informative. It is written by Lee Bollinger, the president of the University of Michigan. The information on 'points' for applicant into college was never quite in the open before, however Bollinger comes straight forward and tells the truth of applications at the University of Michigan. Bollinger states that universities are looking for many different factors in their applicants, and yes, race and culture are issues. These universities 'will give 'points' for various factors in the selection process in order to ensure fairness' (1). And as stated later, race and ethnicity are included in the 'point system'. The problem that many people have had is that could a minority aquire an admission over an applicant with a higher SAT score' Bollinger explains that the academic factors score bollinger, college, points, university, students, states, race, factors, ethnicity, yes, universities, score, process, point, place, michigan, higher, different, article, around, applicants, applicant, all-white, all-black, young, written, world, work, very, various, truth, thing, therefor, terrific