In fact, it may be the reason why many of us attend Fullerton Community College rather than pursuing an education at a more prestigious university. ... For example a school may offer acceptance to 30% of African American students, 25% of Hispanic students and only 10% to Oriental students, even if that means lowering the standards. ... As Obama did, many students of color hold an advantage in admittance because of the color of their skin. ... This is where supporters of affirmative action and non-supporters agree that something must be done for these students who are academically behind. ... ...

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Do minorities really need a handicap to earn college acceptance? ... In addition to GPA and achievement tests, students can score points for things like being a resident of the state in which the college is located, being related to an alumni of that school, having won a competition, or being a scholarship athlete. ... All this so we can benefit from a more diverse student body. Many colleges seek diversity among their students, but is race really where they will find it? ... Now universities can be made inaccessible to a qualified student because he is not a minority; which is also unfai...

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Affirmative action in colleges and universities should not be upheld. If a white student with excellent high school grades applies and does not get into a school that he deserves to attend because a colored student with decent high school grades takes there place that is reversed discrimination. ... If a student gets accepted to a school because he is a gifted athlete that is a different form of discrimination. ... Nor should a student be declined acceptance because of economic class. If a student wants to attend a college or university bad enough they find a way to attend no matter how ba...

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This decision is deciding which colleges to apply to and eventually attend. At this time however there is chaos surrounding the admissions of minority students to colleges. ... The second scenario concerns two students who have just graduated from college and are in the process of applying to graduate school. ... The number of minority students attending American colleges and universities jumped 48% in the 1990's, with all minorities posting double digit gains in college enrollment, according to a study by the American Council on Education. The Study which analyzed statistics from the...

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I must admit, we managed to come up with a diverse group of students without even taking race or gender into account. ... This is especially true with regard to college admissions. This may be because many people see college and college students as the next generation of this nation's leaders. ... This also shows up in college admissions. ... Some of these students may have come from schools that didn't have the same amount of funds or resources as others. ...

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I know a person who is a minority who got into a very prestigious college. Clearly some affirmative action was in play, for some better qualified white students were not accepted by that school. ... We can't blind ourselves to the fact that there are poor white students as well. ... In many major competitive NCAA schools, academic standards are lowered for minority students who participate in sports. ... I admit that some academic standards need to be lowered to allow for affirmative action, but these days it has been abused by schools who care more about winning a national championship...

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Minority students who do not meet the minimum requirements for prestigious schools are being accepted in order to create diversity, but this action is only hurting those students. Most affirmative action students have lower GPAs and test scores than non affirmative students, this makes it harder for them to thrive in such competitive environments. At the University of San Diego, affirmative action students had GPAs that were 0.30 points lower than other students and tests scores that were 200 points below White students (Rose 263). ... According to the US News article, The Gap in Graduation Ra...

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There should be a number of different courses or curricula in secondary schools and colleges designed for people with different abilities and different vocational goals. The high school should offer commercial, homemaking, mechanical arts, agriculture, and college-preparatory courses. ... In this common core there should be no sectioning of students by vocational aim or social position. ... The students' aptitudes, abilities, and expectations in life should be assessed and considered by wise and well-trained counselors who should then give the students and their parents their honest and f...

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Nonetheless, the advancement of women in the work force is not an issue in college admissions. ... For example, if a Caucasian and a Hispanic student were to apply to the same school, having the same academic standing, most likely the Hispanic student would gain acceptance. Subsequently, it's an unjust system because its logic assumes that the Hispanic student is poor, underprivileged and had to work three times as hard as the Caucasian student. ... On the flipside, the student may be brilliant, but the vigilance of affirmative action among fellow students creates assumption. ... As an a...

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For example let us say Cornell takes a student based solely on his merit, not taking into consideration his color, creed, race, or gender, and that it turns out this student is African American and felt no need to check off the box on his application concerning color. ... Situations like the hypothetical example proposed here only further racial tension and place distance between the races, only furthering racism, and making racial tension worse on college campuses across the U.S.. When asking black students from my graduating class from the Prep. who now currently attend Cornell how they fee...

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If you look at reality, however, you will see that there are still many more white Americans in college than any other race. ... Not to mention that these minorities aren't necessarily asked to go to a certain college, but however must apply just like the rest of the nation. ... Their reasons for dropping out are the same for any college age student. They do fairly well in highschool, but find the unlimited freedom of college to much to grasp all at once. ...

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.: The school's student body is 67% female, but women constitute only 43% of its athletic program. ... Almost all private colleges and universities must abide by Title IX. ... Other benefits: Title IX requires the equal treatment of female and male student-athletes such as: equip, games, tutoring. These new regulations have brought in a wave of girls into the college athletic scene. ... Opponents of Title IX claim that it should not be enforced in college athletics because there is a lack of athletic interest on the part of college females. ...

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Bush complained that U-M gives greater weight to a minority applicant/s race than it does for a perfect score on college admissions tests. ... Examples of how points are awarded include: • White students who attend high schools that have predominantly minority students get 20 points. ... • Students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged or who have overcome extraordinary obstacles can get 20 points. • Students from at least 114 highly regarded Michigan high schools get an extra eight points because of the strong curriculum and high numbers of students who attend colleg...

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Recently, the legitimacy of Affirmative Action's fairness in giving students of all races an equal chance has come under fire. ... Being a black female myself, I believe that students should be accepted based on merit of their performance and not their sex or race. ... It is harder for students from such schools to get into a good college. ... Colleges quest for more percentages of minorities lead to reverse discrimination. ... Texas has implemented the 10% program, which entails making the top percent of schools around the state eligible to come to the colleges. ...

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In addition, the administration has resisted pressure from fellow Republicans to support white students in the Michigan cases who claim that racial diversity is not justified by giving preferential treatment to minorities. ... Without affirmative action, it is likely that the premier colleges and universities would be made up of predominantly white men and Asian-Americans. Studies have shown that the supposedly objective standards for measuring student qualifications are not objective at all but rather favor the white suburban male who has been given the better educational opportunities i...

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The Law and Me (Affirmative Action In Colleges) In 1964 and 1965 President Johnson signed the Civil Rites acts, and these acts included affirmative action. ... In other words they wouldn"t always take the 100 most qualified people, since 16 students entering the school must be a minority. "Bakke's qualifications exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in the two years Bakke's applications were rejected"(www.plhs.esu3.org). ... Affirmative action has been challenged once again on college admissions. ... This is just one of many ways affirmative action affects Pu...

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This case highlights a significant decision made by the Supreme Court of the United States that allows race to be one of the many factors used in university and college admission policies (Mosley, 135). The fundamental premise behind this new legal principle is that diversity within the student body allows different perspectives to be expressed, leading to a higher quality of education. ... On page 134 it states "We would expect a black student from a middle-class family in Clinton, Maryland to offer different perspectives from that of a white student from a middle-class family in Chevy C...

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In other scenarios, minority students who apply to colleges around the U.S simply get accepted because of their cultural background, rather than grades and qualifications like they do to the Caucasian students. ... For there can be a program that can prepare and even train minority high school students to go to college and meet the same standards that of a Caucasian student. ...

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An example is when some colleges are saying no to hundreds of white males and then admitting hundreds of minorities with lower grades and test scores and who are not even college ready. ... More specifically, "The university's law school is the defendant in a reverse discrimination class-action lawsuit over the practice of admitting minority students with lower grades and test scores than whites" (Internet). ...

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According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." ... Family incomes have less to do with SAT scores than the efforts students put into their studies. ... Instead, all students should raise their own standards in order to improve our society. ... Instead the school would rather accept a Mex...

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Three white students are challenging the school's admission policies as unconstitutional racial discrimination. The white students applied to the University of Michigan, but were rejected, while black, Hispanic, and American Indian candidates, with somewhat lesser qualifications, and credentials, were given preferential treatment, and admitted into the University. ... The University has not even met the student and is already giving him or her preferential treatment. ... The University is trying to meet a quota with this point system, which is discrimination because the University is t...

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Basically, affirmative action is giving preferential treatment in College admissions, job hiring, etc. to minorities (but also those with disabilities and female applicants) in an effort to prevent discrimination. ... As we speak, many high school students across the country have who have applied to universities are being rejected because there are other, less qualified people who are getting accepted because they are minorities. ...

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Not only does it use race to decide who will get the better job, but it is based on an assumption that minorities cannot be as successful as white students and employees without government intervention. Imagine that two people have finished college, and each wants to go to the same medical school. ...

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The goals were later extended to college admissions and of government contracts. ... Minority students who have never been accepted into a decent school are now being accepted. ... Society's hopes are to end racism in school campuses and to have diversity between the students. ...

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As well as hiring more teachers who are better qualified to teach the students. ... Granting the freedom to choose better schools is one step toward improving the future applicant for colleges and universities. ...

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