Student editorial board: Affirmative action shouldn’t benefit white, rural students so much

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 Student editorial board: Affirmative action shouldn’t benefit white, rural students so much
Daniel Payne - Assistant Editor •October 25, 2018
 

‘Students deserve better than that’

The editorial board of a prominent university student newspaper is calling for a reduction in a particular type of affirmative action at that school, stating that the university’s policies currently unfairly benefit “white students from rural states.”

In its column, the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson takes issue with the fact that Harvard University “sends interest letters to students from rural ‘sparse country’ with PSAT scores lower than the usual threshold to receive such letters.”

https://www.thecollegefix.com/student-editorial-board-affirmative-action-shouldnt-benefit-white-rural-students-so-much/

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Just tell ’em you’re, uh, ‘grappling’
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