I think that the point of the measures proposed by the Inside Higher Ed piece is that Black kids will be funneled into AP classes on African American Studies, so that even if they don't have other AP classes, this will make them AP students, and recognizable as Black to the admissions office--at least when this strategy is combined with …
I think that the point of the measures proposed by the Inside Higher Ed piece is that Black kids will be funneled into AP classes on African American Studies, so that even if they don't have other AP classes, this will make them AP students, and recognizable as Black to the admissions office--at least when this strategy is combined with an admissions essay that addresses racial justice, which really means revealing one's racial identity in the essay, so that the admissions office will see that this is a Black student. Admissions will then be able to give special weight to students who have done well in AP African American Studies and who have written especially well about racial justice, with the idea being that these will be the Black students (even if the essay is badly written, the fact that the author is Black will far outweigh this). And so affirmative action can continue even after it's been ruled unconstitutional.
I think that the point of the measures proposed by the Inside Higher Ed piece is that Black kids will be funneled into AP classes on African American Studies, so that even if they don't have other AP classes, this will make them AP students, and recognizable as Black to the admissions office--at least when this strategy is combined with an admissions essay that addresses racial justice, which really means revealing one's racial identity in the essay, so that the admissions office will see that this is a Black student. Admissions will then be able to give special weight to students who have done well in AP African American Studies and who have written especially well about racial justice, with the idea being that these will be the Black students (even if the essay is badly written, the fact that the author is Black will far outweigh this). And so affirmative action can continue even after it's been ruled unconstitutional.