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Just to play with the parameters to see how badly one could perform and still have about a 52% chance of admittance, I discovered that a black male, resident of Virginia, father attended UVA, with a class percentile of 100, and a 200 Math and 200 Verbal SAT would have a 52.67% chance of admittance. This would mean that you were a moron who was at the top of his High school graduating class, which must have been entirely composed of idiots.

If you were white with the same qualifications your chance of admittance would be a more realistic 0.84% (yes that's less than one percent). As a note, you get 200 points on your SAT math or verbal by signing your name, attempting to answer ONE question (right or wrong) and turning in the test at that point.

Now lets see how a white applicant would have to perform to get around the same 52% chance as the above demoed black student. The white male is an out-of-state applicant whose parent(s) did not attend UVA. He has a perfect SAT score of 1600 (800 each on Math/Verbal) and a class percentile ranking of 89, which means while fairly smart, he went to school with many other geniuses. So how does he fare in addmittance. He would have a 51.99% chance of admittance, slightly behind the hypothetical black applicant described in the first paragraph.

Ahh, the power of cheese...

29 posted on 05/04/2002 11:50:33 AM PDT by dvwjr
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To: dvwjr
Now lets see how a white applicant would have to perform to get around the same 52% chance

I'm not disputing that UVa discriminates against Whites. It probably does. It also discriminates against people who aren't good basketball players. This helps make a university community. The question is to what extent they will take some applicants so they can say, for example, that they have student from all 50 states. If they try to take as many from North Dakota as from New York, that's dumb. If they take five from North Dakota ahead of five more qualified New Yorkers that's not so bad.

My own (limited) experience in classes I have attended (obviously I choose these classes, and I don't go to basketweaving) where there has been interaction, the Blacks haven't seemed any less intellectual than the Whites.

ML/NJ (occasional racist)

31 posted on 05/04/2002 12:08:31 PM PDT by ml/nj
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