Posted on 02/27/2015 9:46:04 PM PST by QT3.14
A report in the LA Times revealed that blacks and Hispanics get bonus SAT points at elite universities based on their race. Asian students however are penalized 50 points due to their race.
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I wonder if Jews got extra points? I’m guessing no?
what if the student is half black and half whatever?
Supposing for the sake of argument it's all of them, what sense does that make?
I barely graduated from High School, having done well all the way through Junior year and then giving up Senior year (this was 1968 and in the midst of a big change in our society).
I ended up in the Air Force after not being able to get a decent job anywhere, or go to college (my fault) and because I was 1A. I did eight + years, during that time I got married and we had a son. I got out and came home to work for $150/week repairing electronic medical equipment, still more than I made in the AF.
I wanted more and studied and took the SATs and applied to a very well known engineering school here in GA. I never did find out what my SAT scores were, the school never told me, but they miraculously accepted me.
On entering, I took their assessment tests and on the math part I got a 39% - very bad, and it demoralized me a lot. It was then I realized why they never told me my SAT scores and why they accepted me. It was because I was a veteran, plain and simple.
It took me 13 straight year-round quarters to graduate. I did this because I knew if I took a quarter off, I’d never go back. The first quarter was filled taking ‘remedial everything’. I did okay and thereafter I worked and studied damned hard - up to 2 or 3 in the morning most nights. I was on the Dean’s List 12 of those quarters.
So, yes. There are cases where SATs don’t mean much. It’s more about how hard you study, IMO.
This and affirmative action, why bother going to school just show up and what you are will get you the job not who you are. The work place suffers becuase uneducated people are filling jobs becuase of the color of thier skin, the evidence is shown in local state and federal agency employees
Sounds like a political “racket,” doesn’t it? When will people awaken to the idea that we need the best and the brightest to keep us surviving in this veil of tears we call life? I believe our liberal arts colleges are mostly filled with the mediocre now who are easily corrupted and brain washed and I think that is what leftist academicians want. In my experience, the truly gifted tend toward the hard sciences..The mediocre go into public services where political correctness is alive and well. And, how about journalism? Do you ever wonder about those SAT/ACT scores? I do notice there are very few Asians in that field.
,,,”Just another form of redistribution. It just broke my heart to see the difficulty my brilliant youngest son (national merit scholar) had getting into med school because of this crap.
They will never make silk purses from sows’ ears.”...
And, everyone eventually will suffer for this. You cannot transfer or redistribute intrinsic intelligence from one person to another and society is grossly weakened when corrupt human beings punish the gifted by replacing them with people who are not on that level. Public universities who have adopted these destructive policies will die from within right along with the country.
There are only a couple of non-publicly-funded colleges in the country.
Once they get in instructors are told not to fail them.
Didn’t know there was ever a system whereby a college could have you take the SAT such that the scores weren’t reported directly to you.
But SATs at that time especially were aptitude tests. An engineering school’s assessment test would have been on knowledge, simply to know which classes to place you in.
It’s not surprising that you were behind on that, but with hard work could catch up and adequately complete their program. Yeah, they may have given you a boost in acceptance because of your veteran status, but you likely, especially if you had generally done well in school, were in range to be able to do the work.
Yes, but then they can put "Attended Columbia University" on their resumes, and no politically correct HR department with a quota to fill dares interpret that as meaning anything other than that they are fully qualified degree holders.
I’m sure that Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard must have adopted this policy decades ago.
I never did find out what they were. I took the SAT at that school on a Saturday and submitted the application along with it. To this day, it isn’t in my transcript.
As I said, my last year in HS was for crap - bad grades, constant skipping, all the bad stuff. The only reason I graduated is because I took everything needed to graduate the year before. I only really needed one course and I barely passed that.
The racism of the left is institutionalized and highly honored and respected.
Points for ethnicity. Gotta love it.
You raise an interesting question—regardless of the obvious snare of private schools taking government funding.
Legacy students are among those defended by private colleges’ right to discriminate. But insofar as private colleges off the public, paid service of higher education, I would think that the anti-discrimination laws that apply to public accommodations could be applied.
If you can’t choose to discriminate by race concerning who eats at your lunch counter, why can you discriminate by race as to whom you provide a higher education? Such schools could presumably choose to reorganize to sell private college “memberships”, but the law can sometimes reach even there: http://law.freeadvice.com/government_law/civil_rights_law_ada/private_discriminate_religious.htm.
Now, of course, enforcement in such situations could be pushed to absurd levels, which is why many conservatives want the reach of such laws to be as minimal as possible while assuring decent treatment for all.
It DOES matter because the future dropouts are being accepted into slots that would have been filled by whites or Asians who would have succeeded and perhaps been responsible for the next great medical breakthrough or discovery in physics or chemistry. Instead, they have to go to their second or third choice school, with a weaker program in their major and receive a lesser education.
It is illegal, unconstitutional and wrong.
What's a degree worth from a place like that?
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