Affirmative Action Makes Me Sad

Every year millions of students apply to college and every year millions of students are forced to come face to face with the evils of affirmative action. Over the last three decades, affirmative action has hurt students, both the minority and majority alike. Thousands of qualified applicants are rejected every year, while unqualified students are set up to fail with placement in an academic environment that is too advanced. Affirmative action is an outdated band-aid approach to fixing problems and it repeatedly proves to be ineffective. Affirmative action should be phased out of use,…