[johnforbes]

Source: LA Times


bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant's race is worth. She points to the first column.

Asian Americans would lose out under affirmative action
African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says.

She points to the second column.
“Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”

Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.

[RealJustme]

Message it sends:

Whites are too intelligent, they need to be punished
Asians are too intelligent, they need even more punishment
Mexicans are stupid, they need help
Blacks are even more stupid than Mexicans and need even more help

[johnforbes]

Exactly.

To me, the message blacks should receive is to place greater emphasis on schoolwork and try to get better grades, rather than to expect society to view them as dumb and just hand them extra points.

As an Irish agricultural laborer, it was not exactly as if I grew up hanging out at the Sorbonne, so why don't kids who grow up in rural poverty get extra points?

The truth is that our society should run on pure merit, and scholastic aptitude tests measure that well (not perfectly, but well).

[elklindo69]

And when you are Jared Kushner, the standardized test scores and grades really don't matter when his pappy makes multimillion dollar donations to Harvard.

Nothing more than par for the course for plutocrats...

[sillydaddy]

Elk...don't envy money........money doesn't envy you..! :lol: :lol: :lol: