MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — The Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action nationwide was based on what was described as a fundamental sense of fairness. The rationale was that a student's college acceptance should rely on their grades, not on race.
I mean, we're in this weird position, which is... that we have a small liberal arts-oriented university and two-thirds of the people who apply are perfectly well qualified to do quite well on campus. START HERE: Oh, like, they sneak it into conversations and say, 'Sure would have been nice,' or something?Oh, not even. They'll call me up and say, 'She got into some school that's even more selective than we are, and she didn't get into Wesleyan, and you say you help alumni.'
START HERE: Yeah, I was going to say, what are you seeing from other colleges and from other college presidents? Because there have been a few, but there's a lot out there that legacy is kind of a nice thing to have on your campus.Well, it is a nice thing, and…some of my best friends have parents who went to Wesleyan [laughing]. My parents didn't go to college, so I didn't really understand this stuff when I was a student.
So he wanted to send a signal that we want a diverse campus. And so in this announcement about legacy, the reason you're talking to me is because we're talking about legacy, but that's a tiny thing. What I would rather talk about is that we're recruiting veterans. That we're, we have a program in Title I high schools all over the country to bring more low-income kids to Wesleyan and schools like Wesleyan.
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