... just 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 ... MESA class every day, and sometimes even on Saturdays. As part of the class, faculty and UC-Berkeley graduate students provide extra academic help in math and science. They also encourage MESA students to pursue careers in the subjects. Minority engineers and scientists from California's Silicon Vall...

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... "to take Affirmative Action to ensure that applicants are employed. . . without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin (Civil Rights)." Affirmative Action was created in an effort to help minorities break through the discriminative barriers that were present when the bill was first enacted in 1965. At this time, the country was in the wake of nationwide civil rights ... is even more evident in a report by the Center for Equal Opportunity, the report states that "median SAT scores for white students admitted to the Naval Academy in 1995 were 580 in verbal and 610 in math ...

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... attain greater numbers in senior academic positions. Because a 2000 study showed that females had less confidence than males in their ability to do well in math and science, affirmative action programs need to show girls at the elementary, high school, and college levels that they too can pursue scientific fields. Affirmative action programs encouraging gender equality ... race as a factor in admissions decisions to public universities. Those that do not support affirmative action believe that it is "reverse discrimination", claiming that a white applicant with higher SAT's and a higher...

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