What criteria should be used? age, sex, grades, essay, country of origin, zip code, football skills, field hockey skills, number of published papers, number of juried art shows, financial status of family, class standing, state of residence, city of residence? It is not as easy as one might assume to find a reasonable way to choose candidates for admission. What if everyone was given a number and only minority black females were admitted? Then who would yell! What if only white females passed the admissions test. What if all the students were Japanese??

I mean who really should decide these things based on what criteria? And doesn't one believe that UofM's admissions criteria are weighted for diversity? What the hell is wrong with that?

Condolezza started this with Bush. She was provost at Stanford and black admissions and numbers of black profs increased during that time. It has a political meaning only, because admissions at UofM are more fair every year from what I can discern.