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[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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Heard an  interesting interview recently with the president of DC’s all female Trinity College.  As more women went to co ed colleges and Trinity lost their traditional white middle class students, Trinity made an outreach to AA women from DC.  President reported about 37% graduation rate among these women despite financial support, tutoring, child care, etc.  it is very difficult [/quote]

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