IN 1996 Barbara Gutter, who is white, applied for admission to the University of Michigan's Law School. She was denied. After investigating she found out that African Americans and ethnic minorities who had lower overall admissions scores were admitted. The admissions procedure is based on a points system. The points system is an admissions criteria, which is based on 1500 points that awards students for certain accomplishments and/or characteristics. Minority students are given 20 points just for the fact that they"re a minority. So when Barbara Gutter applied for admissions she started with a score of zero points and a Hispanic student started with a score of 20 points. Honorable Dean Brady, I am very pleased that the University of Missouri, Columbia does not adhere to this procedure. The points system for admissions to colleges and universities is unjustly rewarding, corely unconstitutional, and perpetuates divisions.
Many people would agree that the points system for admissions is unjustly rewarding. How can it be justly rewarding when underrepresented minorities receive 20 extra points toward their total admissions evaluation score, of up to 150 points, whereas a perfect SAT score only adds 12 points. I have to agree with what President Bush had to say on this matter, "This is quota system, I oppose it!" It rejects and accepts students "based solely on race." I have to wonder if I would have been accepted to the University of Missouri if the points system where in place there. I might have been denied the opportunity to study music with my renound voice teacher, opera, and music theory professors. I might have been denied the chance to better myself, but an applicant with lesser qualifications who happened to be a minority might have been accepted. I can't understand why a system which so unfairly rewards students is still in place in some of today's colleges and universities.
