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The QS requirement is unnecessary, and doing away with it would give non-STEM students like me more freedom to pursue our academic and career interests.
Race-based affirmative action is the only remedy to a historically inequitable system.
Duke football may never surpass basketball in popularity, but we can become a school that supports our football team better.
Diversifying Duke is an issue of and not or. Striving for economic diversity does not mean we shouldn't also strive to make campus racially diverse as well.
As a self-proclaimed anti-STEM student, I started to see the benefits of pursuing the STEM path at Duke and how my own path lacked these advantages.
The pressure that doesn’t come from campus, classes, professors, extracurriculars or parents comes from ourselves, and I believe that is what pushes us to sacrifice so much.
Before you ask the Black community your burning questions, there are so many resources here at Duke that exist to shine a light on African American history and culture.
Some things are truly just out of our hands and fighting to end a policy that strives to even the playing field is not the way to regain control.
Competing against students that attended private schools, come from wealthy backgrounds, have had increased access to opportunities or just possess plain talent means that the average student with nothing but a passion to learn will never be enough.
The Duke community must make sure that the burden of reassuring others doesn’t fall on Black Duke.