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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The average black student gets admission to the University of Texas with a score hundreds of points lower than white or Asian students.

Then upon entering the University of Texas, they often flounder. The graduation rate for UT as a whole is 78%, but for black students it is about 60%. And undoubtedly, the black students that do graduate do so with lower grades. Given either the lack of graduation or graduating with poor grades, these black students then face an uncertain career.

How is this good for anybody?[/quote]

Have you looked at the specific numbers based on all high schools since they take 10 percent of all high schools.  I am sure that many of those black students are coming from segregated schools that are not as good.  Texas is not known for it's great educational high school system.  Do you have the specific details?  Did you take into account finances?  Family situations?  I am assuming that since you gave your opinion and stated some data, that your data should be more thorough.

Black students make up a whopping 4.4 percent.  Damn, can't we have have anything?  Is that 4.4 percent really affecting you?[/quote]

It's not about taking away the 4.4%.  In the Atlantic article it mentioned that the number of AA students actually graduating from UC Berkley stayed the same after they removed AA.  So, what you seem to be fighting for is the right of unprepared AA candidates to flunk out of more prestigious universities vs. graduate from lesser universities.[/quote]

How do you know they were unprepared?  Maybe there were other reasons they left.  If you listen to Kavitha Cardoza's reporting on why students of color don't graduate and have bad grades, a lot had to do with navigating their new environments, not understanding their new environments, worrying about home, not feeling a lot of support.  There are many many reasons and very few having to do with them being unprepared.

I guess it would require that you get out of you little brain and actually analyze the issue holistically.  Why don't you find other sources that dispute this article and then come back with an informed opinion.[/quote]

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