Q Is, uh, is DEI the bathwater? Let me, let me ask you guys actually a question. What is the correlation between DEI and scholarship? Is there one?
A I don't think having a diversity of thought and thinking about merit are mutually exclusive. I think that's a false dichotomy. Okay. We were the first Ivy League to bring the SAT back, uh, at Dartmouth, and many of our peers followed, and the reason is we looked at the data, and what we found was that it was a great equalizer in finding students from lower income backgrounds and higher income backgrounds who are succeeding in something that's less actually susceptible to financial input, like letters of rec, and what you did for the summer, And a better way for us to find lower income students who are excelling where they are, but maybe don't have the prep or the background. So I, I think it's a false.
AI assessment note: “I don't think having a diversity of thought and thinking about merit are mutually exclusive.”