Affirmative Action, Standardized Tests, and College Admissions

Can Affirmative Action Survive?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/02/can-affirmative-action-survive

By Ditching the SAT, Harvard Hurts Minority Students
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-ditches-sat-hurts-minority-meritocracy-education-diversity-affirmative-action-asian-black-11640123407

The University of California Is Lying to Us
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/why-university-california-dropping-sat/619522/
Caitlin Flanagan notes:
There is only one group of students who are “overrepresented,” to use the chilling language of social engineering, at the university: Asian Americans. Twelve percent of K–12 students are Asian or Pacific Islander, compared with 34 percent of UC undergraduates. Aligning enrollment with state demographics would require cutting the share of those students by almost two-thirds. It would mean getting right with contemporary concepts of anti-racism by reviving one of California’s most shameful traditions: clearing Asians out of desirable spaces.
In the 19th century, Chinese people were beaten and lynched in California, in a prelude to the state’s successful campaign for the Chinese Exclusion Act, which cut off immigration from China. In 1906, San Francisco tried to force all Chinese, Korean, and Japanese public-school children to go to a separate “Oriental School.” And in 1942, the first internment camps for Japanese Americans opened in California. The UC has an established history in this dirty art. In the 1960s, Asian enrollment at UC Berkeley was strong, and it soared through the ’70s. But in the ’80s, it plummeted mysteriously. Berkeley was investigated by the Department of Education, and in 1989, the chancellor apologized and pledged that this would never happen again.
Related:
UC admits largest, most diverse class ever, but it was harder to get accepted
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-19/uc-admissions-new-diversity-record-but-harder-to-get-in

 
In Defense of Meritocracy
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2021/06/in-defense-of-meritocracy.html