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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All you posters who are insisting that minorities admitted to competitive schools with lower grades and scores than white and Asian students do just as well, be realistic. In what universe would you put a crop of B- stidents in with straight A students, and not expect the former group to struggle to keep up with the latter group?

I've worked in the industry. I can tell you that that a high percentage of the minorities admitted under the lesser AA standards require a lot of tutoring to stay in the program. (Competitive universities invest a lot in keeping the AA students in their programs since they want to keep the drop-out rate low.) By comparison, the minorities who would have gained admission under the standard guidelines, which constitute about a third of minorities. do not need extra tutoring to keep from failing. As one would expect. After all, they were "equal" in terms of grades and test scores as the non-minority students.

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Stanford had to create  a couple of “physics for dummies” type courses to boost retention of URM students.  Is that really the way AA is supposed to work?  Pretty pathetic.[/quote]

What you are saying is complete bullshit. Those courses have nothing to do with URM students. The top colleges have always had science courses that were not for science majors and did not require advanced math, because they want the liberal arts students to take them without worrying about it hurting their GPA and knocking them out of an elite law school. Students nicknamed the courses Physics for Poets, Rocks for Jocks, etc., but their purpose was to encourage students to learn something outside of their major.

And for the post above, B- students are not being admitted to elite colleges under Affirmative Action. Only kids of rich/famous legacies or elite athletic recruits would get in with B- averages. The boost that comes with Affirmative Action is that Harvard and Princeton take kids who would get into Georgetown or Duke without it; Georgetown takes kids who would get into UVA without it, and so on down the list. None of these kids are dumb-asses, so stop with the absurd stereotyping. [/quote]

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