[giveyouareply]

On the flip side, the selection process (I dont think I'd call it racism).

Special admission can benefit marginalized low income communities if one of their students gets a step up. For example, a student of low socioeconomic status (or from under representative race). Let's say they qualify for a special admission. They train hard for years to become a doctor. It may be advantageous to have a doctor that can look back at where they grew up, hopefully putting resources in future to help others in their community.

Not only that, those marginalized communities can lose trust in the system, so seeing people who do 'make it' can be a motivator for others.

I do understand the predicament though. It's a shame we can't increase the number of spaces available. At some point there has to be a cut off. a hard decision to make.

[SamReidHughes]

This was a nice argument in 1980, but 40 years later it got kind of stale.