Columbia is eliminating the SAT/ACT before it is eliminating legacy admissions. It tells you everything you need to know. If you can be described as a traditionally disadvantaged person - even if you are 2nd-generation Nigerian Ibo whose oppression was on another continent fifty years ago - the Ivy League would like to make sure that news stories about you leak out. Columbia does have a rationale, which includes “to best determine an applicant’s suitability for admission and ability to thrive in our curriculum and our community, and to advance access to our educational opportunities.” The key words there are community and access. Those allow Columbia to do whatever they want, to anyone they want, basically. Always ask first "Who benefits from this? Who is punished?" In this case, children who have overcome a difficulty are not rated higher than those who have merely experienced one.
The ability to effortlessly produce buzzwords and gibberish and euphemisms has become a precondition for advancement in our institutions of higher learning. Which is how ambitious mediocrities have gained control.(Rob Henderson's Substack Newsletter)
I am reminded of Steve Sailer's declaration that his preferred pronouns are the same as Stalin's: Who? Whom? The revolution is essentially the new status quo when its opposition has too many hills to effectively die on and increasing percentages of it pursue essentially symbolic, feelgood victories.
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"Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church." -- Screwtape, Letter I
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