Affirmative Action Makes Me Sad

Every year millions of students apply to college and every year millions of students are forced to come face to face with the evils of affirmative action. Over the last three decades, affirmative action has hurt students, both the minority and majority alike. Thousands of qualified applicants are rejected every year, while unqualified students are set up to fail with placement in an academic environment that is too advanced. Affirmative action is an outdated band-aid …

…accepted to college based solely on their merits, not a biased quota system. Affirmative action should not be used to decide college admission because it is a cover-up approach that neglects to fix the real issues, is unfair even to almost everyone involved, and true results have never surfaced. Instead money and time should be focused on primary education in under-privileged areas, and more effort needs to be made to make education a priority everywhere.