While college acceptance should be based solely on academic and extracurricular accomplishments, unfair variables such as race and gender are interfering with colleges' admission decisions in order to meet certain quotas. ... A drawback on Affirmative Action has been tested before and shows a dramatic difference. ... He was not accepted despite scoring higher on standardized tests than almost all of the minority applicants. ...

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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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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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They performed door-to-door testing alongside health professionals and they used the media to further their cause, "Alternatively, their home visits represented a form of itinerant, grassroots organizing that carried the Young Lords campaign to a much larger number of people beyond their periphery." ... Black women fought for gender equality and fiercely challenged female subjugation. ...

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