The number and proportion of minority students in colleges, like many things in life, is a function of supply and demand. “Most of the controversy, and hence attention focuses on the demand side of that equation – the steps that selective colleges take to enroll more minorities,” I write in a new post on National Review Online’s Phi Beta Cons. “These include affirmative action outreach, outright racial preference, ‘holistic’ admission standards that always seem to benefit minorities more than others, etc. Three recent reports, however, reveal that the limited supply of highly qualified minority applicants presents a serious obstacle to even the most ambitious racial tinkering in admissions offices.”
My Phi Beta Cons post discusses those three reports.
