This morning, Paul condescends to tell us all why (in his warped view) only GPA and SAT / ACT / LSAT / MCAT / GRE scores should be the yard-sticks by which we decide who gets in to which schools, and whether or if they get in anywhere, at all.

Of course, rather than honestly admit that he wants to advance that silly notion, he instead attacks all other schemes as “race-based“. [So, once again, using the fallacy of composition, he attacks a non-existent opponent. And what… a goofy guy.]

Look — we all know dozens, if not hundreds, of people who are “Phi Beta Kappa / No Common Sense” — people who got great grades, and test off the chart on standardized tests… but are utter disasters in real life — in the working world, or in anything other than a cloistered research lab or musty small college lecture hall.

So, when Paul pretends that “only numbers” are a workable live proxy for merit… his own lived experience tells him he’s lying. What it (his proposition) mostly is… is a good predictor of wealth, and mostly whyte cultural advantages that come with it. [Increasingly, it also skews in favor of Asian-Americans who’ve lived here for more than two generations.]

So — another way to look at Paul’s “perfected world” is to realize that it allows for a maximized number of “legacy admissions” — which, due to three centuries of overt bias (in favor of whyte males), in turn means there are almost uniformly whyte legacy admittees coming in the door, that way. Another unearned skew in favor of whyteness. Color me… utterly unsurprised.

No, at bottom, Paul and his ilk seek a return to the days when only the best families got into Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale and Stanford.

Because he thinks his family is among that lot.

The dishonesty of his (and the Supremes’) arguments would be comical… if they weren’t so sad.

As he knows, the fact is — it won’t amount to a hill of beans, as colleges will use essays to achieve “merit” diversity.

So prattle on, Paul. No one cares.

Out. [Same goes for Hinderaker’s bleatings, this morning. Updated @ 11:47 pm — and his whine, of this evening. Ugly.]