To have a set number of minorities to hire isn't advocated excepts where a court of law has unmistakable evidence convicting someone of racial or gender discrimination. ... Once implemented businesses and schools were to select students or employers strictly on qualifications not race or gender. At first this sounded like a very good plan but as time passed affirmative action almost became an unfair advantage for minorities, employers where hiring and accepting minorities strictly based on race or gender not their qualifications. ... Bakke's test scores and interview rating was hi...

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Its sole purpose is to give disadvantaged students a chance at achieving their full potential by not only focusing on their grades and test scores. ... Most affirmative action students have lower GPAs and test scores than non affirmative students, this makes it harder for them to thrive in such competitive environments. At the University of San Diego, affirmative action students had GPAs that were 0.30 points lower than other students and tests scores that were 200 points below White students (Rose 263). ... Affirmative action should be a temporary program that will later evolve into an equal ...

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There is still evidence of "non-traditional affirmative action" practices in various aspects of American society, American schools, clubs, and even minority and gender biased organizations. ... Race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference, socio-economic status, standardized test scores, lineage and disability. ... Throughout the life span of our young country there have been millions of unjust incidences of discrimination, wrong doings and even cases of murder, that were based on the color of one's skin, gender, religion, sexual orientation and other characteristic's of pe...

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Smith Advanced English II: Social Criticism Essay September 18, 2003 Affirmative Action The fourteenth amendment to the constitution guarantees equal rights to all people regardless of things such as our gender, religion, age, or race; how, then, is it lawful for colleges to determine who may attend their school based on skin color? ... In addition to GPA and achievement tests, students can score points for things like being a resident of the state in which the college is located, being related to an alumni of that school, having won a competition, or being a scholarship athlete. ...

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It is more important that they are highly qualified than reflecting racial and gender balance. ... Given that an exceptional performance on standardized testing is required to get into a post secondary institution, without access to the same academic resources minority groups are at a disadvantage. ...

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I must admit, we managed to come up with a diverse group of students without even taking race or gender into account. ... This is also helpful in preparing the child for standardized testing which is a requirement for admittance to college. The questions on these standardized tests usually favor those coming from an upper class or upper middle class background. ...

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The tests aren't able to measure the "stature and potential of an individual" such as what obstacles they have had to overcome or what their life experiences have been. In addition, proponents of affirmative action, like David Broder, claim that the diversity achieved through such programs allows blacks and whites and all people for that matter " to engage in educational discourse and join one another in testing the rigors of the mind." ... Shouldn't we all instead be fighting for a "color-blind society" that judges on merit and qualifications rather than race and gender. ...

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This young man looks at the average statistics of minority students and sees that the test scores are incredibly low along with their GPA's. ... It also found a gap between genders among blacks. ...

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