If you want many examples, read Coates’ The Case for Reparations in The Atlantic. I can count a dozen off the top of my head that were mentioned in that article.

War on drugs that criminalized drugs with much harsher penalties based on the perception of who used them.

Admissions offices are aware of this and the good ones presumably do some massaging to line people’s data up more accurately.

Otoh if we went with pure scores:

Let me succinctly state what so many others are replying to you:

And that’s really the point, Abigail wasn’t attacking the top percentage of automatic applicants, she made her argument based on race which if you take into account the facts that black and Hispanic applicants of who had as good or better scores than her and still did not get in, her race did not matter. Had she…

More importantly, anyone who knows anything about the SATs knows that you don’t do well on them by simply knowing things. People who score highly are taught to the exam via prep courses. Shockingly, the availability and cost of those prep courses means they are almost exclusively the enclave of wealthy whites.

I think what you’re failing to see is that America as a whole is rife with systemic racism (I can provide many examples if you truly don’t know what I’m talking about) that negatively impacts the ability of minorities to accrue wealth. Once you accept that, then any system that is biased towards wealth is then of…

Don’t date a social justice man. Conservatives love librarians. George W. Bush married one.

Also 168 black and Latino applicants with as good or better scores were not admitted. She would have still not got in

I would say that it didn’t matter since 42 white applicants and 5 minority applicants that had lower scores were admitted. It came down to her extra curriculars and how they were weighted.

I feel you on that, I tell people I have a Masters in Information, but that it’s not as cool as it sounds, mostly a lib degree focused on archives and records management. hahah! I had a electronic records management class right about the time that Edward Snowden was like GOIN’ DOWN. Super fascinating. Lots of lovely…

Believe me, I don’t lack for people in my life to tell me what I already know (or what they think I should already know). Fortunately, my husband, dear man, has spent a lot of our life together trying to get me to ignore them.

Haha, I say librarian because I went to library school and it’s easier to explain, but yeah I’m an archivist. I did work for a year for a republican, but what I always tell people is hey, I’m making sure the incriminating shit isn’t getting illegally shred and erased. Just cause I work 9-6 and don’t protest the IMF…

I feel like a sell out, aka corporate archiving, but like HEY-O at least we have the funds to do shit right. I didn’t get an MSI so I can make $30K a year for the rest of my life begging for funding for the most basic of projects. SORRY. Also libraries ain’t hiring around me. He was just jealous that you were smart…

This was fantastic, Jia. This sentence in particular really summed up the entitlement that exists among upper-middle-class, mostly suburban white people:

I’m there with you. I recently ended a short-term, well-paying gig where I was doing potentially “morally questionable” ghostwriting. I told my boyfriend all about it, every day, and he never once put on his judgement hat, only supported what I needed to do at the time. He plays way too many video games for my taste,…

Yeah this really bugged me. Like when I dated this guy I met in some activism circles who called me a sellout for pulling back on my activism and focus my time on going to grad school to become a librarian. A LIBRARIAN, of all things, was a sellout to him.

That little part was a thing that makes you go hmmm for me. My first reaction was “you quit because you were mansplained about why it was wrong”. But then I took a minute and remembered that we look to others in our lives to tell us what we already know, or wish we knew in time. And had she disagreed he might well…

It bugs me just a bit that you felt you had to quit a lucrative gig because it offended your boyfriend’s finely tuned sense of social justice. From the way it sounds, you weren’t depriving a non-white student of a place at UT Austin; you were just indirectly helping prop up the delusions of adequacy of mediocre white…