If you read the whole article in the LA Times, you will see they let in another black guy from the slums who was an a natural intellectual. He really cut lose in college, and aced all the difficult courses.
The black guy who didn’t do so well reminds me of a couple of white guys I met in college, who were just educated beyond their mental abilities. They wrote similar types of papers full of big words with no clear concepts behind them.
“The black guy who didn’t do so well reminds me of a couple of white guys I met in college, who were just educated beyond their mental abilities. They wrote similar types of papers full of big words with no clear concepts behind them.”
The term for them is ‘legacy admission’.
In that case, it proves a mathematical (statistical) phenomena - reversion to the mean.