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They need to leave race off the admission form.
It would be an interesting experiment to see what the demographics of elite privates and flagship state unis would look like.
I have a feeling it would not make most of the people on this thread feel warm and fuzzy.
They need to leave race off the admission form.
It would be an interesting experiment to see what the demographics of elite privates and flagship state unis would look like.
I have a feeling it would not make most of the people on this thread feel warm and fuzzy.
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The focus needs to be at the K - 12 level. If the test score difference between most Black and Hispanic students is that great it's already too late by the time college comes around. If you separate out poor Whites from certain areas they are also hopelessly behind. People who are that far behind usually struggle in college anyway. There are people who had terrible home environments and thus didn't test high but thrive in a better environment, those people make me want to keep a reduced form of AA around in some form. But they are the exception, not the rule Govt can't solve everything but I do think we need to stop busing poor kids so far from home, localizing teaching methods and classroom structure, and promoting things that help IQ development like breast feeding and good nutrition and funds to contain lead and other pollutants that harm brain development.
The focus needs to be at the K - 12 level. If the test score difference between most Black and Hispanic students is that great it's already too late by the time college comes around. If you separate out poor Whites from certain areas they are also hopelessly behind. People who are that far behind usually struggle in college anyway. There are people who had terrible home environments and thus didn't test high but thrive in a better environment, those people make me want to keep a reduced form of AA around in some form. But they are the exception, not the rule Govt can't solve everything but I do think we need to stop busing poor kids so far from home, localizing teaching methods and classroom structure, and promoting things that help IQ development like breast feeding and good nutrition and funds to contain lead and other pollutants that harm brain development.
What you want to achieve starts in the home and with the parents.
Which is why it's next to impossible, because you can't legislate how to parent.
Hey, at least we didn't have to have academic standards lowered for us in order to be accepted, as you clearly did.
??? Your post makes no sense.
We can compare resumes and remember, you can claim standards for me must've been lowered, to help cope with your own failure.
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Originally Posted by MPowering1
Not to step on your happy dance, but admissions doesn't mean graduation. The dropout rate of college students is significantly higher among black students than it is white students.
They need to leave race off the admission form.
It would be an interesting experiment to see what the demographics of elite privates and flagship state unis would look like.
I have a feeling it would not make most of the people on this thread feel warm and fuzzy.
It wouldn't be a problem for me if they took race off of the admission. What worries me are people who use tis issue as an opportunity to complain about Black people.
If certain demographic groups, in general, can't hack it at a community college, what makes you think they are qualified for a selective admissions 4-year college?
I didn't see any mention of 2 year program drop out. Where did you see that?
I see that you're quite obstinate after being informed several times that Oriental is an archaic term that isn't used to refer to people? Not surprised, really.
I mean China, Korea and Japan, maybe Vietnam and Cambodia. i.e., the Orient. Not Afghanistan, Yemen, Ceylon, etc. which are all parts of Asia but not the Orient. The Orient Express not withstanding.
Just because a word is archaic does not mean it isn't a word.
It wouldn't be a problem for me if they took race off of the admission. What worries me are people who use tis issue as an opportunity to complain about Black people.
That's really all it is.
Abby Fisher was the poster child for that.
46 students got in over her with less than stellar academic records. Over 90% of them were white. She didn't complain about them.
She complained about the 1 black person that got in.
46 students got in over her with less than stellar academic records. Over 90% of them were white. She didn't complain about them.
She complained about the 1 black person that got in.
I wonder what her C-D name is.
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