... now college admissions are based more on skin color than on skills and merit. The University of Michigan rates students on a scale that awards points for SAT scores, High school grades, and race. A perfect SAT score is worth 12 points, but being black gets you 20 points. Now tell me, is there anyone who can look at those numbers and say they are ... is a white boy who will graduate from a prestigious midwestern academy with a 3.9 grade point average. He took all the AP classes that the school offered, had a PSAT score of 1480, a SAT score of 1360 and an ACT score of thirty-one. He was i...

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... a decent education while being poor is slim to none. When taking the verbal section of the SAT a child from a household making below $10,000 would most probably receive a score of 446 while a child from a home that makes more that $100,000 would most likely to get a score of 559. The math portion is as bad with scores of 446 for the kids with ... might be a little less qualified. Affirmative action is also discriminatory against the minorities it is trying to protect. By allowing minorities to be accepted for things with a lower qualification or score majorities are treated unfairly and...

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... to race and color. According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average ... SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." (Rosen, p.3) In effect, the solution by supporters of affirmative action is to lower ... , he will not study as hard as someone who has been brought up with education as their number one goal. Family incomes have less to do wit...

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... Rights Act of 1964. This amendment was the guidance that American leaders needed to change the policies under which schools, business and local state and federal government adopted a new era and developed new strategies in which "business" was conducted. In 1972 the Equal Employment Opportunity Act was implemented. Hiring and promotion of minorities has shown tremendous increase since this act was ... recognized and the courts ruled unconstitutional to use a quota system. This ruling still provided a good opportunity to attract a diverse student body, but many minorities were not making ...

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... inevitably reflects future success) is not as unreasonable as it once may have seemed. In this sense, social disadvantage is taken into account much the same way as an applicant's SAT score . The real question most proponents of affirmative action would find appropriate is not whether affirmative action is unfair to White people, but rather whether social disadvantage is a legitimate personal qualification ... preferential treatment of certain social groups, then admittees from non-preferred social groups will be especially better qualified. For example, let's say that School X has one ...

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