🚀 go-pugleaf

Kim A. Berry <kberry@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> writes:

	I oppose U.C.  Berkeley's practice of having different
	admission standards for each race. Each race competes for slots
	only with members of their own race rather than against all
	applicants. Special treatment of certain groups breeds
	resentment.

Oh, I don't know -- I know my time at UCB was better for them having
given better access to targeted populations that otherwise would have
gotten lost in the paperwork.  Face facts -- UCB gets tons more
applicants than they have slots for.  If they simply took the top of
that cream, how homogeneous might it be?

How much *less* potential does some 4.0 student who came from the inner
city and who, because of factors outside of his direct control (like
nutrition) got a 1500 SAT score instead of the 1520 cutoff ...
hypothetical numbers, but the point is that without that policy (which
just got dropped?  didn't I see something in the papers last week about
this?), what would UCB look like?

/jordan