1. Affirmative Action
... " (Bronner Referendum). Quotas help minority students get accepted into college, but they do not help them graduate. The dropout rate for blacks at Berkeley was 42% compared to 16% for whites (Krauthammer 23). What is the point of students getting accepted into a college that they are not academically prepared for and then failing to graduate? The students who drop out have ... that is best suited towards their current academic stance. If they perform well, then they can move up. Our goal should not be to push students into a situation they are unprepared for, but instead to prepare them...
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