Equity Policies Create Racialized College Tracking

By eliminating placement tests and remedial math, colleges are routing underprepared students out of math‑heavy majors and into low‑return programs. The diversion disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic students, turning 'equity' into a new form of tracking that closes off BSTEM pathways and depresses lifetime earnings. — This flips the equity narrative by arguing that standards removal can widen, not narrow, group disparities in skills, majors, and economic outcomes—pushing policy back toward honest sorting and hard K–12 preparation.