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Merit-based admission vital

To the editor,

This is in Response to Ms. Bapat's article on the change of University acceptance criteria in Florida. The article argues that by admitting the top 20% of all students and not looking at ethnicity is only giving a chance to people who would be going to college anyway. Why should people who don't belong in college get there just because they're a minority? If anything, by making acceptance merit-based you will raise the bar for minorities in High School to do better in school. If all admissions sees is prior performance then they should be able to see who the hard workers are and accept those students. If anything it's a step in the right direction by keeping people who didn't want to learn in high school from not learning in college it also lets other kids who should be accepted but are rejected due a need to fill a ethnic quota's. Merit based is the way to go and maybe other states will follow California's and Florida's lead.

Tobias Nicholson

History freshman