According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." ... Family incomes have less to do with SAT scores than the efforts students put into their studies. ... A projection done by the San Jose Tribune suggests that by the year 2000, white males will make up only 10% of new hires. ...

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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." ... After you graduate from college, you will be putting in your application for a job that you went to college for. ...

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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. ... ("The Origins of Affirmative Action" by Marguita Sykes) This was now a concern that directly targeted the colleges and universities. ... 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. ... The undergraduate progr...

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