"To have the same chances of gaining admission as a black student with an SAT score of 1100, an Hispanic student otherwise equally matched in background characteristics would have to have a 1230, a white student a 1410, and an Asian student a 1550."
“Being an officer or winning awards” for such career-oriented activities as junior ROTC, 4-H, or Future Farmers of America, say Espenshade and Radford, “has a significantly negative association with admission outcomes at highly selective institutions.” Excelling in these activities “is associated with 60 or 65 percent lower odds of admission.”
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(wmounts, A&M. BT)
ReplyDeleteThis story hits a little too close to home for me.
ITEM #1:
I spent the last two days with my son at his soon-to-be college's orientation. My son who is half-white, half-Korean, is an amazing young man (my bias notwithstanding). He is entering college with 38 credit-hours from Advanced Placement courses/exams, and had a 1550 on the traditional SAT (2300 on the new one), with an overall high school GPA of 4.2 (out of 4.0). He is a National Merit Scholar. Two summers ago, he spent the summer in an Artificial Intelligence program at Stanford, and this summer is continuing his job of last summer working in research in a USArmy lab.
He was accepted to only two universities, neither of which was the University of VA (a state funded public institution).
ITEM#2:
He had his 18th birthday recently, and we had a party for him which included 8 of his friends. He went to a rather special high school; all of them are extremely high achievers. The group was mixed ethnically; a couple of mixed race kids, three whites, a couple of asians, and one black girl. Guess which person was accepted to Yale, even though 6 of the others had higher SATs and GPAs?
ITEM#3:
At dinner Monday night, we ended up at a table that included a man who bragged about having 3 masters degrees in very obscure subjects (ancient music seemed to be his favorite), whined about not making very much money, but then boasted about how his lack of income worked in his favor because the university was giving his son an almost free ride. As a counterpoint to this, my business of 20 years is struggling because of the massive loss of manufacturing in this country, and our income has dwindled over the last 2-3 years. But, because we were frugal during the good times and can show "wealth", we are getting no assistance.
I'd like to say that I'm not bitter, but...
I can totally sypmathise, Brock. I had a professor a few years ago who admitted that when he taught at the University of Georgia that it was understood and commonly accepted amongst the faculty members he knew that Black students got half a grade added to whatever score they actually earned. So if they earned a C plus they got a B. I've also seen this play out in other ways on the university level. Gays, lesbians, self-hating Whites and open communists dominate the universities. And as you point out here, who is hurt the most by their bias? Poor White people - especially poor White men.
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