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Old 10-01-2008, 01:40 PM
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Affirmative Action discriminates. Using race, not grades, for law schools.

I guess if you're white, good grades aren't enough to get you in to these Arizona law schools...

Affirmative action backfired based on fairness against racism... figures.

Study: Minorities get better shot at law school

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Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services

A study by an organization opposed to affirmative action concludes that minorities are far more likely to be admitted to the state's two public law schools than similarly qualified whites.
The report by the Center for Economic Opportunity shows that the number of whites, Asians, Hispanics and blacks admitted to the law colleges at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona is pretty much in proportion to the number that apply.
But it also finds that both schools admit minorities with lower grade point averages and scores on the Law School Aptitude Test than whites.
At ASU, the median LSAT scores for blacks admitted in 2007 was 8.3 percent below whites; and a 6.7 percent difference exists between Hispanics and whites, according to the report. At UA, the median LSAT score for blacks admitted in 2007 was 15 percent below whites; and for Hispanics, the difference was 10 percent.
For grade point averages for the same incoming class, there was a 7.5 percent difference between the scores of whites versus blacks and Hispanics.
The result, according to Roger Clegg, the organization's president, is that everything else being equal, a black person with equal grade point average and LSAT scores is 250 times more likely to be admitted to the UA than a white. For Hispanics, he said, the ratio is 18 to 1.

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