No, I Am Not Lost – A Black Woman's Experience in the Stanford CS Major

Re:No, I Am Not Lost – A Black Woman's Experience in the Sta... by geofft on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @08:09PM (#9926822)

> give extra points on the SAT for just checking a box.

[citation needed]

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Re:No, I Am Not Lost – A Black Woman's Experience in the Sta... by aliston on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @08:24PM (#9926888)

Up until 2003, it really was this explicit:

The University of Michigan used a 150-point scale to rank applicants, with 100 points needed to guarantee admission. The University gave underrepresented ethnic groups, including African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, an automatic 20-point bonus towards their score, while a perfect SAT score was worth 12 points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratz_v._Bollinger

That got ruled unconstitutional, so now its implicit:

Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race...

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Re:No, I Am Not Lost – A Black Woman's Experience in the Sta... by chernevik on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @08:28PM (#9926905)

http://priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-d...

See graph of proportion admitted by SAT score.

Data is 1997, but if you think anything has changed, you're kidding yourself.

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Re:No, I Am Not Lost – A Black Woman's Experience in the Sta... by itg on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @08:11PM (#9926828)

doesn't have to be explicit, look at the average scores required to get into a competitive university.

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Re:No, I Am Not Lost – A Black Woman's Experience in the Sta... by skylark on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @08:16PM (#9926854)

I don't think the way the poster worded it was particularly fair, but affirmative action is definitely a thing.

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