Striking Down Affirmative Action Hurts All of Us

We do not live in a race-neutral world. We are more than just a score on a standardized test.

Every spring I relive the fever dream of the college admissions cycle.

“Didn’t you hear?” My mom will tell me of one of her students or an Auntie’s kid. Someone had gotten into Yale. 

As the eldest daughter of two immigrants, I felt their anxiety around a quality education –  further multiplied by the fact that both my parents were math teachers. And for …