... /or characteristics. Minority students are given 20 points just for the fact that they"re a minority. So when Barbara Gutter applied for admissions she started with a score of zero points and a Hispanic student started with a score of 20 points. Honorable Dean Brady, I am very pleased that the University of Missouri, Columbia does not adhere to this procedure. The points system for admissions ... that the points system for admissions is unjustly rewarding. How can it be justly rewarding when underrepresented minorities receive 20 extra points toward their total admissions evaluation scor...

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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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