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More on Michigan

From BlackPressUSA
An Inside Look at the University of Michigan�s Admissions Process
by George E. Curry

… As Woodson states, a person with a perfect SAT or ACT score receives a maximum of 12 points for that accomplishment under this system.

What Woodson fails to acknowledge is that the University of Michigan correctly assigns a low priority to standardized test results and places a greater emphasis on grade point averages. For example, a students with a straight-A average is awarded 80 points�more than seven times the points given top SAT and ACT scorers and four times those awarded to people of color. Even a student with a C average receives 40 points.

… Critics never mention that 20 points are also given to any applicant from a socio-disadvantaged group. That means a poor White person is just as entitled to 20 points as a person of color. No students can collect 20 points for being in more than one category.

… A student from Michigan�s largely White Upper Peninsula can pick up 16 more points�10 for being a Michigan resident and six for coming from an underrepresented county in the state. If that student is poor, that�s a total of 36 points.

… In fact, the White students who brought the suit against the University of Michigan had higher test scores and GPAs than some Whites who were accepted. Instead of challenging the admission of those students, however, conservatives have chosen to attack the handful of African-Americans accepted. And that�s truly outrageous.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 4/27/2003 09:09:39 PM |