... already work there. Any idea of discrimination or racism that already exists in the workers may be heightened instead of lessened. The idea that your coworker did not have to score as high on the test, meet the same requirements, or have as much schooling as you because they received preferential treatment is going to cause some people to feel a bit ... in the 1995 report said that the average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an average SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African American student was 3.66 with a 1030 average S...

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... others (Williams, 1997, 172)." An example of this can be described by looking at the admittance records of the University of California at Berkeley. At Berkeley, blacks with an average score on the SATs of nine hundred and fifty-two were accepted into the college over whites that scored an average of twelve hundred and thirty-two and Asians with an ... average score of twelve hundred and fifty-four. As a result of this, two thousand white and Asian straight A students were turned away from the college to provide room for blacks and Hispanics ... less likely to own homes than whites wit...

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