Some newer ideas favor of the 10 Percent Plan. ... Another interesting fact that was included in the study was the comparison of grade point averages and SAT scores. "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. The average grade point average for an accepted African-American student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1030." ...
This amendment was the guidance that American leaders needed to change the policies under which schools, business and local state and federal government adopted a new era and developed new strategies in which "business" was conducted. ... This ruling still provided a good opportunity to attract a diverse student body, but many minorities were not making the acceptable SAT score to enroll in the finer schools in the country. ... This special interest in diverse student body in higher education has even considered eliminating the SAT and using the student ranking upon high school graduation...
At the University of Michigan, perhaps the finest public university next to Cal-Berkeley, "the admission rate exceeded 90% for all 'underrepresented' minorities with GPAs above 2.8 (a dismal B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the test. Asians and whites, by contrast, needed a 3.8 GPA or an SAT above 1,200 to have better than 90% chance of admission [in 1996]" (Thernstrom). ... Before this referendum makes it to the ballot, Florida's governor Jeb Bush is pushing for "new, 'race-blind' entrance criteria to the state's 10 publ...
Jeb Bush adopted a new law stating that school districts will no longer be able to use race as a factor in deciding which students can participate in gifted programs. ... A way out of the recent epidemic of low academic achievement and noncompetitive SAT scores due to affirmative action admissions policies is to raise academic standards and maintain a high quality curriculum and instructional program at the elementary and secondary school levels. ...
