... look at the scholarships offered by Bowling Green State University. An entering freshman that is a non-minority student must have at least a 27 on their SAT and a 3.5 GPA to be considered for any type of scholarship. In contrast, a minority with only a 3.0 GPA and a 21 on their ACT ... 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 who were admitted to the University of California-Berkeley in the fall of 1993 (Before ... affirmative action was elimi...

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... get in based on how smart they are, not the color of their skin. You can tell the difference between students admitted purely on their scores and those helped by their race. The kids from the quotas are kind of not as smart, some of them." This statement seems to portray ... 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 al...

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... affirmative action at Berkeley because it was mainly helping middle class minorities, who had equivalent or similar resources of[to] a middle class white student, get into the university with lower SAT scores. He feels this process is unfair. He argues that Blacks have made such a great advancement since the 1960's that the majority of African-Americans are not disadvantaged anymore. Therefore, ... so that a broad coalition can support them- (Wilson). Wilson argues that there is a better way to open opportunity for minorities. He calls it, "affirmative opportunity."" Wilson states: These...

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... 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 ... 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 ove...

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... 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 ... very best black applicants a range of scholarships and other monies, soak up a huge portion of the relatively few blacks who score in the top range of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The unprepared and un...

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... other places of employment; and 83% say they were never turned down for a job in favor of a man. These are from a 1992 New York Times Women's Survey (Quigly). In California, the issue of affirmative action is one of the most controversial. Asian students at the University of ... 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 initiative named Proposition 209 in November 1996, Californian government agencies ...

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... . Selection among comparably qualified candidates is as follows: a minority student with an 1100 on their SAT's compared to a white student who scored a 1120 is hardly a significant amount. Predictions of the general population with scores comparable in this range will not be affected by such trivial differences in scores. The most radical form of affirmative action that should be addressed is selecting unqualified minority ... : Cornell University Press 1991. Forman Jr., J. Saving Affirmative Action. Academic Search Premier. Nation, 12/9/91, Vol. 253 Issue 20, p746, 2p Reverse Discrimina...

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... preferential treatment and insults anyone who is beneficiary of this practice" (Jenkins, 1999, 178). Affirmative action in educational facilities promotes a feeling a reverse discrimination in which whites and Asians with higher SAT scores and grades are denied an education at a prestigious school to fulfill a quota of minorities (Williams, 1997, 173). Affirmative action is not only disappointing in creating equality in schools, it also ... of affirmative action over thirty years ago, not much progress has been made. Perhaps the best solution to this dilemma is to abolish the policy of ...

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