Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Here's how preferential treatment discriminates

October 17, 2009 04:12 PM EDT by John Stossel
Ivy League Diversity Contortions

"Ivy League college applicants are not created equal, according to a study of seven elite private colleges by Princeton professor Thomas Espenshade. Asian students have the biggest hill to climb.

"Asian students were much more likely to be rejected than seemingly similar students of other races....

"African-Americans who achieved 1150 scores on the two original SAT tests had the same chances of getting accepted to top private colleges in 1997 as whites who scored 1460s and Asians who scored perfect 1600s.

"Affirmative action policies are responsible. Espenshade found:
Whites were three times as likely to get fat envelopes as Asians.Hispanics were twice as likely to win admission as whites.African-Americans were at least five times as likely to be accepted as whites.

"Shocking distortions like these haven't changed the fact that affirmative action still dominates the college admission process, and college administrators think that’s just fine.
Not to discriminate by race could “severely limit the level of minority enrollment at top-tier colleges,” according to a study by Carnegie Mellon University.

"(A) universal ban on affirmative action in college admissions could reduce the number of minorities at the nation’s best colleges and universities by as much as 35 percent...."

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