Syndicated columnist Michael Barone suggests Affirmative Action merely sets up many to fail.
News stories have reported that despite the Supreme Court's decision in cases brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, those and other selective schools still want to employ racial quotas and preferences in admissions.
One problem, as Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor established a decade ago in their book"Mismatch," is that this results in black students tending to be less prepared than their schoolmates in selective schools from Harvard on down. by signing up you agree to our terms of service Evidence comes from the results of an experiment in which high school students of the class of 2022 throughout Michigan were invited to take the SAT, and for which the results were disaggregated by, among other factors, self-declared race.
But when we look at those high schoolers who scored the highest, from 1400 to 1600, which include the top 95th percentile of the population, the picture is different: 69% white once again, but 29% Asian, 2% Hispanic, and 0% black. Some people will find these numbers disturbing, and demand that government do something, somehow, to make every group identical.
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