Affirmative Action 2.0

🇺🇸 The Liberal Party will create a new Affirmative Action policy. The college campus student body is made of 2 groups of students, domestic and international, and we would like to keep both of these student bodies diverse.

We want the international student body to be made up of individuals from all regions of the world equally, and we will divide the world into four main regions. 25% of international students entering the USA will come from the Indo-Pacific region, 25% will come from the African region, 25% will come from the European region, and 25% will come from the Americas (outside of the USA). The international student body shall not exceed more than 15% of the total student body. This requirement can be enforced at the State Department level, rather than the college campus level. And we will require that the student visas for international students coming from each region be as evenly distributed as possible from each country within the region. The State Department may not issue extra student visas for any particular country, for any reason, especially adversarial countries like Russia, China and Iran.

The domestic student body is made up of US citizens. The US Supreme Court has ruled that it is illegal to consider race in the college application process. They have ruled that students must be admitted to schools based on merit without consideration of race. However, it has become extremely challenging for individuals from low-income families to gain access to a higher education, especially the top schools, because higher income families spend thousands and thousands of dollars to prepare their children for the top colleges, resources low-income families do not have access to. We recommend the following changes to the college application process based on income rather than race.

We advise that applicants coming from public schools be weighted differently in the application process than applicants coming from elite college preparatory schools.

We advise that applicants coming from low-income families be weighted differently in the application process than applicants from high-income families.

We also advise that applicants from low-income regions of the USA be weighted differently than applicants coming from high-income regions of the USA.

We also advise requiring all students to declare on the application form if they have used a professional writer to "assist" in the writing of their application essay, and requiring all professionals providing these services to report who they provided those services to.

Finally we recommend that schools be required to admit a small number of students, at least one every year on every college campus, from a rural poverty region and an inner city poverty region of the USA, and those students shall have a full scholarship funded out of the university budget. These new scholarships are to be separate from and in addition to any sports or other scholarships that college campuses already provide.

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