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I agree that no student w/a 600 SAT should be admitted to Berkeley. This is where the PC crowd shows its true colors, because if they were really thinking about the student and not patting themselves on the back for being so understanding, they'd see the truth of what this does to the underprepared student.

Walter Williams is right on when he says that admitting marginal minority students to these schools is a disservice to them. They often flunk out, when they might have done well, or at least adequately, at a less rigorous school.

Imagine the student w/these scores who gets accepted to Berkeley, Michigan or MIT. Their parents are proud of them. In many cases their school, community and church is proud and supportive of them. They go off to school with great hopes, and a great burden, only to be crushed by their inadequate preparation for such rigorous schools. You can blame whomever you want here - the poor school systems, the student's lack of effort, whatever. Many of these black students (the only ones I can speak of with knowledge) are in the top of their class. But that doesn't mean much when the rest of the class is full of people who don't try, or your school is basically a warehouse for kids.

The colleges, in their concern for diversity and the whole student, should consider the ramifications of failure of these kids w/the low SATs and advise them to go where they might actually have a chance for success.