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Originally posted by ZChi4Life
That's interesting. I never thought of this as being a criticism of predominantly white and predom. black colleges/universities. Interesting.
Well I have to say that I do attend the U of Michigan and I've learned quite a bit about the 2 lawsuits we are facing. You can go to our homepage ( http://www.umich.edu ) to find out more about this if you all want.
Basically, we are being sued for reverse discrimination and unfair admissions procedures due to considering race as a factor of admissions.
As a minority student at UofM, I personally don't see anything wrong with using race as a factor for admissions. But maybe that's me being biased cuz I am a minority. Anyway, the number of minorities at our school is very low! Check this: we have about 30,000 peeps at our school. Of that number, 25,000 are undergrads.
Ok so then when you break down the ethnicities that go there, you get this:
approx. 2300 African Am
approx. 1700 Latino/a
approx. 40-50 Native Am
Asian students are not considered a minority because their numbers are quite large (I don't have the numbers..sorry)
So if you take the total number of minorities--about 4,040-4,050 minorities--substract that from the number of undergrads, you can get an estimate of how many Caucasian students we have. It's quite large! (This also doesn't include the number of international students we have either...I don't know the numbers...sorry again)
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How is lowering admission standards going to help anyone increase their earning power upon graduation?
Asians don't recieve any points for being Asian. They teach their kids to excell and have higer academic standards. As a result they have the highest per capita income.