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To: jazusamo

For anyone interested -

Review the effects of the current Texas system. it is really shocking.

When the news talks about it - they say “you can get into UT if in top 10% of graduating HS class” - and it sounds like simple sop to the minorities - and you figure - well - still top 10% - right?

BUT - the play continues - if you are in top 25%, and score X on the test - you also get in.

Now the “X” is set fairly low - but in a white school - top 25% wouldn’t score that low - but in a minority school - etc -

anyway - it is bizarre - people are moving TO minority school districts - because it is so much easier to get into UT from a bad school district.

It is really a crazy system - but you can imagine - how much they had to screw with the numbers - try to get 10-20% blacks into UT.


23 posted on 02/21/2012 11:06:37 AM PST by Eldon Tyrell (question,.)
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To: Eldon Tyrell
it is bizarre - people are moving TO minority school districts - because it is so much easier to get into UT from a bad school district.

To get into U of M, Ann Arbor you have to move to some third-world country...

25 posted on 02/21/2012 1:06:11 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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