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To: billorites
They come with polished resumes and perfect SAT scores.

...but get turned away to make room for the poor, oppressed, disadvantaged minorities who need remedial everything just to find their subsidized dorm rooms.

30 posted on 07/04/2010 1:12:00 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone; billorites
...but get turned away to make room for the poor, oppressed, disadvantaged minorities who need remedial everything just to find their subsidized dorm rooms.

Read Victor Davis Hanson:

On the matter of racial profiling: No one wishes to harass citizens by race or gender, but, again unfortunately, we already profile constantly. When I had top classics students, I quite bluntly explained to graduating seniors that those who were Mexican-American and African-American had very good chances of entering Ivy League or other top graduate schools from Fresno, those who were women and Asians so-so chances, and those who were white males with CSUF B.A.s very little chance, despite straight A's and top GRE scores. The students themselves knew all that better than I — and, except the latter category, had packaged and self-profiled themselves for years in applying for grants, admissions, fellowships, and awards. I can remember being told by a dean in 1989 exactly the gender and racial profile of the person I was to hire before the search had even started, and not even to "waste my time" by interviewing a white male candidate. Again, the modern university works on the principle that faculty, staff, and students are constantly identified by racial and gender status. These were not minor matters, but questions that affected hundreds of lives for many decades to come. (As a postscript I can also remember calling frantically to an Ivy League chair to explain that our top student that he had accepted had just confessed to me that in fact he was an illegal alien, and remember him "being delighted" at the news, as if it were an added bonus.)

NO cheers, unfortunately.

32 posted on 07/04/2010 1:25:01 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Don Corleone
I studied my butt off in college forty years ago and ended up with A's in my major but got my share of B's in must-take courses like art history and astronomy. No grade inflation back then. I often wondered if there was prejudice against giving A's to students in those topics where it wasn't your major.
33 posted on 07/04/2010 1:26:29 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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