Affirmative Action

But, Barone feels that students have specialized needs. What is good for one student is not necessarily good for another, and that fact is often neglected. He believes that students should go to schools that accept them for their achievements and goals, not for their race or their background. When a student is in the right environment the lessons they learn will hold more value because the situations will be more similar to the ones they will experience in the real world. .
             By placing students in a situation among more similar peers it creates the foundation for a more productive and welcoming learning environment. In positioning students with groups that they would tend to socialize with outside of a learning environment, such students are placed in situations that mimic the situations they will be found in at later date. In doing this the students will learn valuable lessons that are easily applied outside of campus because it will be among similar people. If the acceptance committees at universities would realize this fundamental fact then colleges would appear much more successful because the right people would be going to the right places. The students would feel much more fulfilled and they would speak more highly of the institutions that they attended. In the long run the university communities would all be more accepting. .
             Not only would the students feel more fulfilled but they would also be able to find something in common with each other more easily because they were all selected with the same criteria in mind. The universities aim is to broaden the learning environment because American society contains a wide range of cultures, ethnicities, and races; but what about the friendships and associations? In general, humans like to socialize with those that they can easily relate to. It gives a starting point to begin a conversation, it allows for more empathetic discourses since the chance is higher that both parties have experienced similar events.