... 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 ... 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 points lower than that of white high-school seniors. In nineteen ninety-six, the American Lawyer reported that only forty-five ... clas...

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... 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 ... 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 points lower than that of white high-school seniors. In nineteen ninety-six, the American Lawyer reported that only forty-five ... clas...

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... at top institutions. Although he finds that students of color attended slightly better institutions then white students with similar characteristics, he notes that this observation is only based on test scores and high school GPA information. With tens of thousands of applicants, large, public universities do not have time nor labor to review millions of pieces of subjective material. Instead many ... various aspects of an applicant's file and then accept all students above cutoff. While students could get a maximum of eighty points for their GPA and 12 points for their SAT or ACT score...

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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 rate for African Americans is 50% higher than that of the white race. Failing college will in no way help any child and this proves that ... unfair to one gender or race? In 1989 for example, colleges accep...

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... . Therefore now college admissions are based more on skin color than on skills and merit. The University of Michigan rates students on a scale that awards points for SAT scores, High school grades, and race. A perfect SAT score is worth 12 points, but being black gets you 20 points. Now tell me, is there anyone who can look at those numbers and say they ... : "Jared is a white boy who will graduate from a prestigious midwestern academy with a 3.9 grade point average. He took all the AP classes that the school offered, had a PSAT score of 1480, a SAT score of 1360 and an ACT score of thirt...

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... schools are currently recruiting students according to race and color. 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." (Rosen, p.3) In effect, the solution by supporters of affirmative action is to lower the school's standards so that they ... an education is, he will not study as hard as s...

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... 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 under-qualified state of these students often has disasterous effects on the affirmative action beneficiaries. Their graduation rates are considerably lower than their white or asian counterparts ... admitted to UC berkely in 1985, all were admitted under affirmative action criteria rather than academic qualifications. Those students had an average SAT score of 952 compared to the nat...

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... itself. Euro-Americans are ultimately the victims of Affirmative Action when less qualified minorities are supposedly taking up space that the privileged white male should have with his perfect SAT and GPA scores. I feel that Affirmative Action should be implemented. However, I do agree that in some ways Affirmative Action is definitely not effective and some ways unfair. So with this in mind ... , then the fact that someone applying is black, Latino, Asian, or white should only be a small factor in the admission process. Race should only be a consideration when looking at test scores, G...

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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 ... . Another case is where Alan Bakke was not admitted to the University of California at Davis because of a quota system the school used. He claimed his scores were higher than some of the minorities admitted sco...

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... some things about it need to be refined, because for a person like me it simply fosters reverse discrimination. I worked extremely hard in high school to get a high GPA and a good SAT score, while my parents too worked hard to be able to afford to place me in a good school district growing up. When applying to college, I realized that people with lower ... GPA's and SAT scores got into schools that I got rejected from simply because of their race or ethnicity. I understand that some of these people must have had more hardships growing up and need such ... ...

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... ; Michigan residents. • Underrepresented county of Michigan. • Elected or appointed leadership positions, meaningful contributions to the high school and community. • Provost discretion. • Scholarship athlete. • ACT or SAT scores. "The whole system is riddled with arbitrariness and unfairness,"" said Terry Pell, President of the Center for Individual Rights, a Washington, D.C. law firm representing three white students who sued U-M in 1997 ... ...

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... and guardian against inequality and fairness. This young man 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 ... ...

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... like reparations, and affirmative action. How does affirmative action really judge character on abilities in the work place, or for school? They won't always look at who has got higher SAT scores - the African American young man or the Caucasian. They won't care about the straight A's all through high school. The African American will be the one getting accepted, because they've ... ...

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... say that it only contributes to discrimination. Its sole purpose is to give disadvantaged students a chance at achieving their full potential by not only focusing on their grades and test scores. Affirmative action focuses on the individuals race and personal setbacks, such as their economic state. The fact that it revolves around whether you are Black, Hispanic, White, or Asian, clearly ... 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 tes...

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... discrimination, women and members of minority groups should be given preferential treatment in getting jobs (Rosenberg 2). At the same time, 81 percent agreed that jobs should be determined by test scores (2). Also, 77 percent of black Americans did not believe that race should be the main consideration for employment (3). Most Americans believe that mandatory preferences mean quotas. Quotas are a violation of ... down for admission to the Medical School at The University of California, claimed his rights were violated when he did not receive an opening even though his grades and test s...

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... lives there is no reason that race should even be considered. But if that is not able to be done there is no reason that standardized test scores should be curved to give minority's better scores. If a students grades are altered because of there race and are accepted because of it they are not getting accepted for what they can do. They ... ...

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... is a form of reverse discrimination. 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. Again affirmative action's purpose was to see that minorities and woman of equal qualifications be fairly treated. But it now basically forces employers ... threat of one. 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 t...

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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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... decide who would play first. I hated seeing other people being made fun of, although I was always too shy to stick up for them. The class was signaled to start playing. I sat with my back to the bleachers watching everybody play. I noticed that no one in the class could play very well, not even the tough guys in my group. To compensate ... weight with the weak hold that I had. I started to slide down the vertical bleachers. Luckily, I landed on my feet at the bottom and then promptly fell back on my butt. I sat there dazed for a moment when I heard the entire class burst out in laughter...

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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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... decide who would play first. I hated seeing other people being made fun of, although I was always too shy to stick up for them. The class was signaled to start playing. I sat with my back to the bleachers watching everybody play. I noticed that no one in the class could play very well, not even the tough guys in my group. To compensate ... weight with the weak hold that I had. I started to slide down the vertical bleachers. Luckily, I landed on my feet at the bottom and then promptly fell back on my butt. I sat there dazed for a moment when I heard the entire class burst out in laughter...

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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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... alleviate non-institutional discrimination and prejudice they have to open up and communicate their beliefs to members of the host society. One of the teachings of Baha'i faith is to convert others to this religion. This can be threatening to Muslim clergies and parents. I think the "contact" should happen on an individual level and in an unorganized way just ... ...

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... the issue that he believed he had been rejected merely on the basis of his Caucasian status, and that minorities who had gained admission into the University had lower test scores then he did . The Bakke Supreme Court dispute reflected the intense and widespread emotions aroused by quotas, by preferential or compensatory treatment, and by affirmative action. Four justices ruled to ... ...

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... applied to and was denied admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis. In 1974 he filed another application and was once again rejected, even though his test scores were considerably higher than various minorities that were admitted under a special program. This special program specified that 16 out of 100 possible spaces for the students in the medical program ... ...

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