[484] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: more of the same
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Solochek)
Thu May 3 09:32:44 2001
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:32:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Aaron Solochek <leko@MIT.EDU>
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This is exactly right.
There are all sorts of factors which are not in our contol (such as
having wealthy parents who can send you to a good school) which
give someone an "unfair" advantage over someone else. And given
that diversity makes the school better, whats wrong with selecting
the more "interesting" candidate, assuming both would be able to
succeed?
-Aaron
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Aram Harrow wrote:
> have any of you ever got a job through connections?
> do you sometimes feel like most good jobs are obtained that way?
> if so, then the "unfairness" of affirmative action should be a little
> easier to stomach.
>
> -aram
>
