Reservation brings Diversity to the student body?
If you've ever applied to an American school, you would have gone through statistics of percentage of the student body selected from a particular region. In essence you are competing with people from your own region and not the entire applicant pool.
If you've prepared for the IIMs, you would know that engineers form a certain percentage of the student body and people with an arts background have their own quotas. In essence, if you're a B.A., you're not really competing with the engineers for admission.
The rationale for both is diversity of the student body. Although these percentages or quotas are not officially declared, do they constitute a type of reservation?
Erimentha looks at the Reservation issue with this perspective. Read her analysis here.
3 comments:
Can you give me a proof for such a generic assertion? Though there are some affirmative guidelines, nothing is laid in stone. Thus, we see greater and greater Indians in our universities. The fact that you are directly competing with people from your region, is not true.
I just discovered your blog. Its really quite good. Liked the reservation link you've posted.
I agree with your response to it entirely though.
@balaji: "we see greater and greater Indians" - I assume you're referring to their number and not to their stature.
"in our universities" - from this I assume you're not Indian as the name suggest, but a citizen of the US.
"you are directly competing" - Not directly, but as I said in essence
@Anant: Thanks man. Good to see you here.
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