... students' lack of qualifications." Colleges and universities often admit African American and Hispanic students who are not qualified simply because they must maintain their status quo. Many of the minority students who are accepted into such institutions are under-qualified and do not succeed at the schools. For instance, the New York Times published mean SAT scores for four groups of undergraduates ... 994 These figures form the University of California-Berkeley are representative of the differences in scores between minorities and whites from students entering 26 highly prestigious ...

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... receive jobs at places, where minorities are underrepresented. The second place,[no comma; the wh-clause is needed] where affirmative action can be enforced,[no] is in colleges and universities. Affirmative action at colleges and universities is[this is debatable; needs a qualifier] used to help admit underprivileged minorities into their institute. As an assignment in my English Composition II class , my ... was $30,000 a year or below, a commonly used (and generous) metric for "lower income". (McWhorter)[unnecessary] McWhorter opposed affirmative action at Berkeley because it was mai...

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... problem of past discrimination. First of all, affirmative action IS discrimination, only in reverse. In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. A second idea against affirmative action is the idea of individualism, where the ... 90% for all 'underrepresented' minorities with GPAs above 2.8 (a dismal B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the...

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... , as a result of immigration, have become almost 40% of the county, and lowered for blacks who represent 12% of the population and have 30% of the county jobs (Bresler). Due to this inequality of representation, new tensions have risen between the two groups. Previous to the passing of the California ... . It is better than no job, but that is about it. This same feeling can probably be applied to college students as well. Colleges and universities frequently also have quotas for how many blacks it is necessary to admit to "round out" their freshman classes. An example is the ... the ACT ...

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... system of quotas and preferences that we see all around us today. This transformation was accomplished through a series of Orwellian distortions of the law, none of which has ever been ratified by the Congress."(Lund) In the years since, affirmative action in its new form has extended ... its reach to include groups not historically considered disadvantaged, at least in the same since that blacks were. What origonally was linked as a short term leg up for individuals who had supposedly been held down by official policy has turned into a program of racial, ethnic and ... beginning these...

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