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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Affirmative action is a racist policy. [b]It says here are our normal standards to get in SAT/ACT wise and GPA wise. However, since you are black or hispanic you do not need to meet the normal standards because you can't and so we allow you to come in with lower scores and GPAs. This is in effect telling minorities they are inferior to Whites because they do not need to have the same scores or grades. [/b]How many of these Affirmative action kids drop out after a semester or year as well cause they did not go to a place they truly fit in? [/quote]

A) This is not what affirmative action "says"
B) Holistic admission accounts for more than just grades and GPA because schools want interesting, dynamic, students who aren't just book smart - regardless of race.  I know I am glad the school I went to looked at more than just grades and test scores.  
C) Kids drop out of schools for all sorts of reasons but not one of them is affirmative action. You are spewing nonsense.  In fact, if schools also focused on supporting kids once they were admitted and not exposing them to the kind of prejudiced views you hold, they might feel more included in the college community.[/quote]

She is not spewing nonsense. Affirmative action needs to end because it is an institutionalized form of racism and no longer needed.[/quote]
+ 1 Students admitted under affirmative action policies graduate at much lower rates. Why this should surprise anyone is odd. After all, they were admitted with lower grades and scores that would have put them in the reject pile if they were white, Asian, or Jewish. This very reliable source says that the lowest completion rate, defined at graduating four years from when one started a specific institution,  is lowest among black males (40%) and highest among Asian females (75%).

it's a fair argument as to whether we continue to "owe" blacks preferential treatment (and if so, for how many more generations), but AA is a costly policy, admitting students who are less likely to graduate and denying students more likely to graduate.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/04/26/college-completion-rates-vary-race-and-ethnicity-report-finds[/quote]

It's about opportunity and diversity.   Universities use holistic admission practices, not "affirmative action" anyways.  That's why they are going to win.[/quote]

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