I have heard from a professor of a top flight professional school who on the admissions panel accepted individuals who had preference admissions due to skin color, despite many much more qualified Asian Americans and non Black, Latino, Native Americans with higher scores, GPAs and professionalism during interviews.  Not only did the majority of these preference admissions required more time and energy because they could not preform at the same level, one even claimed discrimination.  That professor ended up spending much more time and energy (again preferential treatment) to get that student up to speed for the sake not not being sued - he even told her how can I be racist when I choose you to attend this program?  All I can say is these type of admissions really do a disservice - entitlements for the worse reason, and enabling students to pull the race card when the truth is they are not ready to compete at that level. Furthermore, when these students start to begin their careers in the open marketplace, there is a stain - a fair question emerges - are they truly competent or are they just a preferential admit?  That is the last thing I want when I seek services, I want competence not preference.

I have heard from a professor of a top flight professional school who on the admissions panel accepted individuals who had preference admissions due to skin color, despite many much more qualified Asian Americans and non Black, Latino, Native Americans with higher scores, GPAs and professionalism during interviews.  Not only did the majority of these preference admissions required more time and energy because they could not preform at the same level, one even claimed discrimination.  That professor ended up spending much more time and energy (again preferential treatment) to get that student up to speed for the sake not not being sued - he even told her how can I be racist when I choose you to attend this program?  All I can say is these type of admissions really do a disservice - entitlements for the worse reason, and enabling students to pull the race card when the truth is they are not ready to compete at that level. Furthermore, when these students start to begin their careers in the open marketplace, there is a stain - a fair question emerges - are they truly competent or are they just a preferential admit?  That is the last thing I want when I seek services, I want competence not preference.

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