Commentary: Affirmative action ruling demands earlier intervention for equal college access
by Minerva Canto, Los Angeles Times
Aug 08, 2023
3 minutes
A few weeks before the Supreme Court ruled that race-based college admission policies were unconstitutional, Florida native Jon Wang claimed on Fox Nation that he was rejected from MIT, Caltech, UC Berkeley and other elite colleges because of affirmative action. His SAT score was 1590 and his GPA was 4.65. Social media buzzed with sympathy, with many claiming that Wang’s rejections were proof of the need to ban affirmative action.
I bristled at Wang’s reasoning, but did sympathize with his disappointment. My son and his friends — all among the top
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