... programs are expensive. This is what makes it unfair toward lower income families. The students who can afford these programs are will most likely score higher on the SAT I exam. "Students of families earning $75,000-$85,000 annually score an average of 100 points better than students whose parents earn $55,000-$65,000 annually." (Stein, 2) How is it fair to say ... has achieved good grades, then the college admissions staff should be able to see that the student will achieve the same success at college. This past year the SAT I exam has been revamped. "The new SAT is intended to measur...

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... , Arkansas, after the state's governor, George Wallace forcibly barred black children from entering white school. The government responded to those incidents by passing new laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Briggs, p.195). ... employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination (New York Times)". Although affirmative action is used to give people a greater opportunity, it has been seen that it w...

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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 ... institutions able to offer the 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 Te...

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... 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 ... , he will not study as hard as someone who has been brought up with education as their number one goal. Family incomes have less to do wit...

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... B 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 over 5,000 applicants for only 200 ... the Asians and whites were 3.79 and 11.6, respectively compared with the average scores of the blacks and Hispanics as being 3.42 GPA and an MCAT score of 9.8 ("Being the right race..."). With just these two examples, one can see a pattern that is felt across the country. Just recently,...

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