Admissions quotas for minority students are not only hurting higher education, they are hurting the students themselves, says Richard Sander, a professor in the UCLA law school.
Data show that when students with lower academic qualifications than their peers are accepted into more challenging universities, they suffer academically as a result, Sander said Wednesday evening before an assembly of the Bruin Republicans at UCLA.
Affirmative action creates what Sander calls “mismatch,” whereby preferred students find themselves out of their league and underperform as a result.
Sander told the group that “students will learn less when they are surrounded by students who had scores 10 points higher than them than if they were surrounded by students who had similar scores.” In other words, less academically qualified students perform better when surrounded by students of their own caliber than when placed among students with superior abilities.
This is not a question only of race, Sander insisted, but occurs any time that a student is given preferential treatment based on anything other than academic ability, be it legacy status, athletic prowess, or any other non-academic qualification.
Nonetheless, Sander said he believes his theory explains why so many minority students, particularly African-American and Latino students, drop out of school.
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We've known this for years. Stand someone up on a paper ladder and watch them fall and crush those below.
Harms Whites the Most > but Nobody cares to fix it !!
I am 65 years old and have been discriminated against all of my life for being a white male. Most of this was due to affirmative action. Every time I would apply for jobs they would tell me you are just the type of person we are looking for. But we can't hire you until we hire a certain number of minorities. Also saw a lot of white males passed over for promotions that were given to minorities. One time this happened and the minority individual only lasted 6 months because he couldn't do the job. So they demoted him and gave the position to another minority person. So the poor well qualified white male individual that should have gotten the job was passed over twice.
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