Race and College Admissions

Read the document downloadsubmitted by the American Sociological Association (ASA) to the United States
Supreme Court regarding a Michigan Law School case. The goal is for you to engage the empirical data and
summary arguments while drawing your own conclusions about the college admission process.
After reading the ASA’s position on this case, address the following:
Thoroughly summarize (Links to an external site.) the key elements of the argument presented by ASA. This
summary should include:
A general overview of ASA’s position.
A discussion of the fundamental justifications behind ASA’s position including residential segregation, school
segregation, economic disadvantages, stigma, and the relevance of race-based life experiences to university
admissions.
Please be mindful to summarize the ASA’s position on these issues in your own words.
Argue your own position as to whether or not college admission officers should consider race (as one of many
factors), when deciding whom to accept to colleges. Be sure to use scholarly evidence and empirical data to
support your position. Which position you take has NO bearing on your grade. However, you will be graded on
how well you support your argument with scholarly evidence and empirical data, as well as the amount of
thought put into your argument. Your argument must:
Be well-reasoned and based on scholarly evidence and empirical data – Not on personal ideologies and/or
uninformed opinions.
Explain why you have chosen the position that you have (using facts and empirical data).
Depending on the position you take, propose either an alternative solution to addressing racial inequalities in
college admissions or propose a solution for implementing racial consideration in the admissions of an actual
college setting.