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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really hope that the downfall of AA will support the current shift in enrollment from white institutions to HBCUs. Black students have options (formed by necessity) so they will be fine. [/quote]

I thought diversity was important.
Why would you go to a school with 80+% of the same race.
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Important to who? It's not at all important to me. I get nothing out of it. In fact it imposes significant costs on me.

I would go to school "with 80+% of the same race" because school is about learning not about being around other races.[/quote]

Yes, school is about learning, but much of the learning that school is about takes place outside of the classroom.  [b]Students learn a lot from their fellow students; they learn many things that will be important to take forward into their adult lives. [/b]

College admissions officers know this. That is why they want to put together diverse classes [b]where all the students can learn different lessons from each other. [/b]
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Nebulous concept.
Please share the long-term studies with statistics (GPA, GRE/LSAT/MCAT scores, postgraduate study acceptance rates, graduation rates, avg starting salaries, etc.) proving "diverse" classes foster a climate of success for ALL students.[/quote]

Why not provide a study that shows it doesn’t?[/quote]

+1 Anyone who's attended college in this country and has an open mind knows that we all benefit from learning in a diverse environment. Those who've gone in other countries where 95%+ of the students are of one race have no clue what the value is.[/quote]

Where’s the data?  Where are the studies?  Explain the “value” to the successful STEM students in the PRC who end up here.  [/quote]

It's usually the people who majored in some useless easy stuff and cruised in college say those.  [/quote]

Certainly no one with an under qualified lab partner in a class they needed for grad school would ever say that [/quote]

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