... law school. Grutter was not admitted into the school based on its racial preferences. The following year in nineteen ninety-seven, two other white students with good grades and high SAT scores were also denied admission at the University of Michigan. All three students took their case against the University of Michigan to the Supreme Court as Allan Bakke had done ... in education, jobs, and other benefits (Gutmann 23). According to Lino A. Graglia, who is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, black high-school seniors, on average, have a combined SAT score about two-hundred ...

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... Affirmative Action Pat and Tony are both applying to UC Santa Barbara. Pat has an accumulative grade point average of 3.8, a 1360 SAT score, and is involved in many extra-curricular activities. Tony has an accumulative GPA of 3.2, an 1100 SAT score, and is not involved in any extra-curricular activities. From these facts, one would assume that Pat would be accepted solely ... ...

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... law school. Grutter was not admitted into the school based on its racial preferences. The following year in nineteen ninety-seven, two other white students with good grades and high SAT scores were also denied admission at the University of Michigan. All three students took their case against the University of Michigan to the Supreme Court as Allan Bakke had done ... in education, jobs, and other benefits (Gutmann 23). According to Lino A. Graglia, who is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, black high-school seniors, on average, have a combined SAT score about two-hundred ...

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... it only fair that a person be accepted based on their achievements and academic progress. For example, I know somebody that got into Brigham Young University with a 3.3 to 3.4 GPA and below a 900 SAT score just because he claimed Pacific Islander. Now BYU is a hard school to get into that usually requires at least a 3.8 GPA and above 1200 ... SAT. There is something wrong with that. Over the years, our society has evolved from openly racist to discretely racist. I would like to see some type of Affirmative Action but without ... ...

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... ). The article goes on to say: In 1997 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 black student 3.44 with a 1030 SAT score. These facts show how many students fall through the cracks as a result of affirmative action. Today, colleges must have a completely diverse ... ...

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... could concentrate more effort on children at an earlier age so that they are qualified to get into colleges. According to Stephen Thernstrom from Yale University, the average black student's SAT scores were 300 points below the average of those white and Asian students who were accepted into college. Students are many times accepted despite their scores, yet the college dropout ... , so how can they be unfair to one gender or race? In 1989 for example, colleges accepted 60 percent of African-American students who scored 1200 to 1249 on their SAT, as opposed to 12 percent of white student...

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... inevitably reflects future success) is not as unreasonable as it once may have seemed. In this sense, social disadvantage is taken into account much the same way as an applicant's SAT score . The real question most proponents of affirmative action would find appropriate is not whether affirmative action is unfair to White people, but rather whether social disadvantage is a legitimate personal ... ...

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... looks at the average statistics of minority students and sees that the test scores are incredibly low along with their GPA's. Then he views himself and realizes that his 1100 SAT score and 3.6 GPA has some type of meaning and "pull" in this college thing. He is also attending a predominantly white all-male school and taking college level classes. Due to ... ...

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It's November and applications are piling up on admissions desks. Although you are satisfied with your four years of high school, your SAT's were pretty good and you are confident with your qualifications, something still plagues you. You wonder about that box you check in, stating what race you are. You get through ... ...

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... white students. By giving the minority students extra points, a less qualified student can take the spot of a more qualified white student who did better in high school and on their SAT's. The University of Michigan uses a point system where "being a minority earns you 20 points and writing an outstanding essay earns you only 1 point (Negative about )," so in essence, they are ... ...

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In our activity on college admissions during class we had a difficult time finding criteria by which to judge potential applicants. We eventually decided GPA, high school information, and SAT score would be the most important criteria. We all ended up choosing applicants two, four, six, and seven. Comparing this with the point system used by the University of Michigan ... ...

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