... in admissions policies. In 1999 Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida put an end to affirmative action in his state's university admissions. In May of this year, Gov. Jeb Bush adopted a new law stating that school districts will no longer be able to use race as a factor in deciding which students can participate in gifted programs. His said it was "wrong to ... race. If you have lower standards for one group compared to another, you end up with lower results." A way out of the recent epidemic of low academic achievement and noncompetitive SAT scores due to affirmative action admissions policies is t...

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... B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the test. Asians and whites, by contrast, needed a 3.8 GPA or an SAT above 1,200 to have better than 90% chance of admission [in 1996]" (Thernstrom). In 1997, the UCLA School of Medicine had over 5,000 applicants for only 200 ... the Asians and whites were 3.79 and 11.6, respectively compared with the average scores of the blacks and Hispanics as being 3.42 GPA and an MCAT score of 9.8 ("Being the right race..."). With just these two examples, one can see a pattern that is felt across the country. Just recently,...

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