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A comment on SAT score distributions in Michigan. Parent comment

Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by a2tech on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:48AM (#33108909)
He applied for Computer Science, so I looked at the University of Michigan's Engineering School SAT scores, and he was just a bit over the median score for the engineering school. Since admissions at these schools is slammed with applications its not unreasonable that he just didn't get in because he was in an ocean of similar applications.
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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by prottog on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:52AM (#33108947)
Would it not be fair to look at the median score for different racial groups, since we know that many universities do in fact discriminate on the basis of race in admissions?
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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by a2tech on Thursday October 06, 2022 @11:03AM (#33109118)
In Michigan publicly funded institutions are no longer allowed to use race as a factor.
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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by gnicholas on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:15PM (#33114197)
Same in California, but I nonetheless heard a dean from UC Berkeley talking about how they "push the envelope" in terms of legality. It's easy to accomplish via a "holistic assessments".
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