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The Virginia Association of Scholars and the Center for Equal Opportunity released a new study of the role of race and ethnicity in admissions at the three schools. The study — written by VAS Chairman David J. Armor and based on data obtained from the schools through freedom-of-information requests — found that race played a decisive role in the admissions process at all three schools. Preferences favoring African Americans were especially prominent at the University of Virginia and William & Mary law school, and significant though weaker at North Carolina State.
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During oral arguments in Gratz v. Bollinger Supreme Court Justices raised questions about the use of racial preferences in the armed services. In 1999 CEO examined this issue and concluded preferences are used at two service academies. While the CEO study found that preferences were used at West Point and Annapolis, it also concluded that the degree of preference was much less than that used by the University of Michigan (indeed, it found no statistically significant evidence that Latinos were given preferences at West Point).
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In 1998 the Campaign for a Colorblind America commissioned a Candidate Questionnaire on race and sent it to every statewide candidate in Texas. The following are the responses of then Texas Governor George Bush.
This questionnaire seeks to determine your position on issues of government action in the area of race and opportunity in the United States today.
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Two of Virginia’s Three Public Law Schools Use Severe Admissions Discrimination
This detailed, 50-page study concludes that racial discrimination is widespread in Virginia law school admissions. The report focuses on the three Virginia public law schools -- the University of Virginia, William & Mary, and George Mason University -- and reveals odds favoring black applicants as high as 731 to 1.
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A letter from CEO's Roger Clegg and Edward Blum to public school superintendents in Florida
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On May 7, 2001 the Center for Equal Opportunity released "A Critique of the Expert Report of Patricia Gurin in Gratz v. Bollinger." The critique, authored by Drs. Robert Lerner and Althea Nagai, discusses an expert witness report commissioned by the University of Michigan to defend its use of racial and ethnic preferences in admissions, which has been challenged as unconstitutional discrimination in a lawsuit. The CEO study concludes that Gurin's report is fundamentally flawed in a variety of ways and fails to offer persuasive evidence in favor of using racial and ethnic admissions preferences.
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Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Admissions at the Public Colleges and Universities of Michigan
By Robert Lerner, Ph.D. and
Althea K. Nagai, Ph.D.
Executive Summary
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By answering the questions below, you can learn what your chances were of being admitted to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1995. Your chances would depend on your skin color and your ethnic group, in addition to your SAT scores and your grade point average.
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By Robert Lerner, Ph.D. and Althea K. Nagai, Ph.D.
This report on the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSM) is the first in a series that will analyze the extent of racial and ethnic preferences in law and medical school admissions.Additionally, this and subsequent CEO reports will investigate the consequences of racial and ethnic preferences on subsequent performance once students are enrolled. This study of UMSM examines both the use of racial and ethnic preferences in admissions and the medical school performance of those that subsequently enrolled. The report examines the efforts extended by UMSM to keep these students in medical school. It also presents statistical evidence of how well or poorly they performed in class and on the critical medical licensing exams.
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After obtaining the admissions data for forty-seven public colleges and universities throughout the nation-the schools analyzed on this website by Drs. Robert Lerner and Althea Nagai in their monograph on "Pervasive Preferences: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Undergraduate Admissions across the Nation"-the Center for Equal Opportunity decided that an interactive feature would be interesting for our readers.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
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This report discusses the admissions data for forty-seven public colleges and universities throughout the nation. The average difference in academic credentials among those admitted, whether measured by test scores or by grades and high-school class rank, between blacks and whites, and to a lesser extent between Hispanics and whites, is very large. There are few such differences between whites and Asians.
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Racial and Ethnic Preferences in Undergraduate Admissions at Maryland Four-Year Public Colleges and Universities
By Robert Lerner, Ph.D. and Althea K. Nagai, Ph.D.
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This study represents further analysis of admission practices at the University of Virginia, originally reported in Preferences in Virginia Higher Education. That study, issued in January 1999, presented evidence of racial and ethnic preferences in Virginia colleges and universities, including the University of Virginia (UVA). The report used data from the 1996 admissions process. At the time, UVA officials asserted that our data did not always match theirs. This was of some interest to us, since we had obtained our data directly from UVA on computer disks (and, indeed, had to paid for it). A further examination revealed that there were a number of cases that UVA somehow inadvertently dropped from the files we were given.
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A study on Racial and Ethnic Preferences in Undergraduate Admissions at Four Minnesota Public University Campuses. By Robert Lerner, Ph.D. and Althea K. Nagai, Ph.D.
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By Robert Lerner, Ph.D. and
Althea K. Nagai, Ph.D.
Introduction
For nearly 30 years, racial and ethnic preferences have played a key role in how admissions officers at the nation's public and private colleges and universities have chosen their schools' undergraduate classes. A system of racial and ethnic preferences in admissions operates by establishing different standards of admission for individuals based upon their racial or ethnic background, with some students held to a higher standard and others admitted to a lower standard. Earlier in this century, some colleges and universities denied admissions to Jews, blacks, women, and members of other groups even when their grades, test scores, and other measures of academic achievement surpassed those of white males who were offered an opportunity to enroll. The passage of new civil rights legislation in the 1960s made this kind of blatant discrimination illegal.
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By Robert Lerner, Ph.D. and
Althea K. Nagai, Ph.D.
Executive Summary
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Testimony By Roger Clegg, Vice President and General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity, before the United States Commission on Civil Rights Regarding Racial and Ethnic Preferences in Higher Education, May 14, 1999 Washington, D.C.
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Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Admissions at the Public Colleges and Universities of Colorado All public colleges and universities in Colorado use Affirmative Action in undergraduate admissions to increase black enrollment. There was no school at which the black median SAT score, ACT score, or GPA was higher than the white median in 1995. At the University of Colorado at Boulder, for example, the average white student scored 205 points higher on the SAT (out of a possible 1600), and 4 points higher on the ACT (out of a possible 36). This is a long document. You can also view the Executive Summary only.
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