So if you're not a white male you're a semi-literate token? LOL
Kearney, you must be hitting the suds a little early on St. Patrick's Day.
You do know that they had to lower the standards for males in colleges because the women applicants had higher scores and grades. But don't let facts interfere with your world view. ;-) BTW Happy St. Paddy's Day.
Girls have higher grades but lower SAT scores. Grades measure consistency, whereas SAT scores measure innate talent.
“So if you’re not a white male you’re a semi-literate token?”
Usually, because of the design of affirmative action. For example, while members of “protected classes” may qualify as a lieutenant in the army, affirmative action takes those candidates and makes them captains. Those that would qualify as captains are pushed up to major, etc.. The same occurs in higher education: candidates that would be qualified for a county college are admitted to state schools, work that would qualify for a bachelor’s degree is taken for a master’s degree, and so on. The problem is that the “beneficiary” is always out of their league, surrounded by better-qualified & trained people, and in most cases, they know it. It is a recipe for failure, and results in real dishonesty in appraising such workers/students.
In college I watched “preferred students” who would have never graduated high school in a “white” system spend a semester looking confused in a state college before dropping out; nobody did them any favors (whatever the intentions/goals were).