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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by yummyfajitas on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:58PM (#13919222)
At Michigan - the one university where numbers were made explicit - being black is worth +1.0 on GPA, whereas underrepresented state is +0.1 and underrepresented county in Michigan is +0.3.

https://www.cir-usa.org/Images/mich_index.gif

Do you have any data suggesting that other universities give even remotely as much weight to underrepresented state as they do to race?

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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by rmxt on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @09:47AM (#13922119)
It's flagrantly misleading to claim that "being black is worth [x]" when this scale is dated and explicitly prohibited from use after Gratz v. Bollinger (2003).

See here for UMich's 16 year old explanation of this scale:

https://diversity.umich.edu/admissions/archivedocs/uapolicy....

Do you have any data suggesting anything of the sort is still in use?

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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by yummyfajitas on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:44PM (#13928114)
Colleges are secretive, so we need to make do with what little data the court forced them to reveal. I know of no data more current than this. Do you have any evidence things have changed?
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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by rmxt on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @08:43AM (#13930404)
How can you take something as useful evidence when it has been explicitly prohibited from use?

Unless public colleges are secretly flying in the face of a Supreme Court ruling, your assertion that "being black is worth +1.0 on GPA, whereas underrepresented state is +0.1 and underrepresented county in Michigan is +0.3," is unproven by the evidence you provided.

Had you said "was," and explained that you don't believe things have changed, that would have been far more intellectually honest.

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