ACT/SAT Scores Say Nothing

... 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 automatically receives a full tuition scholarship. Theoretically a minority student with only a 3.0 GPA and a 21 ACT, who comes from a wealthy family could attend the university for nothing. A non-minority student with a 3.4 GPA and a 26 ACT ... , a school of early Greek philosophers, adamantly oppose all the principals that affirmative action is based on. The Sophists defend natural right. They say that nature did not create all men equal. It is the right of t...

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... a "friend of the court," but these efforts were slow and achieved little progress. Titles IV and VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 authorized the government to become involved to insure that school districts complied with desegregation policies by providing for assistance in helping ... school success (Fantini 78). Leon Botstein is also of the opinion that standardized testing is outdated: The use and popularity of SAT tests has done nothing to improve schooling for those populations that need it most. It has merely reinforced the educational advantages possessed by high-income white ...

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... was created with the intention of using reverse discrimination to solve the problem of discrimination. This reversal of roles in racial discrimination does nothing but cause arguments and problems for both those for white males and those in the minority. Some arguments for affirmative action may be that ... . Another interesting fact that was included in the study was the comparison of grade point averages and SAT scores. "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African-American stude...

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... employees are treated "without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin"(Brown). Kennedy's executive order implied equal opportunity and nothing else. The system that has since evolved is a perversion of the original intent of affirmative action. The dynamic history of affirmative action ... , who is white, for admission, even though minorities with the same or lesser credentials were admitted. To prove her point, her lawyers say that they have uncovered confidential documents that explicitly spell out Michigan's biased admissions policy. Gratz says "they are using race as ...

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... put into practice in order to cut down on this discrimination. However, in my opinion, affirmative action has done nothing but make this problem worse. It does, in fact, help out some minority groups, but on the other hand ... than Asian American applicants who have the same academic qualifications. At Ivy League colleges, incoming freshmen have average grade scores close to 4.0 and average SATs of 1,250 to 1,300. According to admissions officials, however, several of these ... schools admit black, Hispanic, and American Indian students with grade averages as low as 2.5 and SAT aggregate...

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When intelligence is mentioned, people typically imagine books, high test scores, and Ivy league colleges. Similarly, others believe standardized test scores tell you how intelligent a person is, and your GPA is all that matters. However, intelligence is much more than ... things in common, the key factor between them is that they both require the ability to think. Although the arts are not featured on the ACT/SAT, and they are not required school subjects, they actually require just as much thinking as math and science. When a choreographer creates the moves, plans ... to be intelligence. So...

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... 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 are fair? You are given the impression that there is nothing you can do in your life to get into ... college and your fate is predetermined. Take this story for example: "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 sc...

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... country class ranking for college admittance will not promote fairness or equality to the students. The article gives academic information on the students including class rank, G.P.A., ACT & SAT scores, senior-year classes, A.P. courses completed, last book read, and then a comment from the student on their future college plans. Granesh, Earl G. " ... States. The author took the stand of affirmative action today is a somewhat farce idea from that which came from the original Civil Rights Act of 1964. If we want to promote equality, than there are two ways we can do so. We can first try to...

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... constantly changing, it remains an estimation and nobody can be absolutely certain of the year anymore. "April 4th, 1984. He sat back. A sense of complete helplessness had descended upon him. To begin with he did not know with any certainty that ... a person. All things considered in the novel it just proves that the government or Big Brother will stop at nothing until they have total power over the people no matter how many people they have to walk over to do it ... them on sight without a second thought. After Big Brother lets Winston and Julia go and see each other they don't say a wo...

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