Isn't it racism when you make decisions about people based on race?
Well, UW no longer believes that students with good grades is important. They don't believe that students who actually have the skills to graduate matters....
It matters much more if the student is a minority or poor....
Kids with 4.0 GPA's, very capable, deserving students get denied to UW-Madison due to the liberal, affirmative action racism that dominates their admissions policy...
non-academic factors will also be of importance for borderline students, including the students' "accomplishments, demographic factors, extracurricular activities, leadership qualities and racial and ethnic heritage, socioeconomic status, special talent and work experience," according to the UW presentation.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
New policy considers more than grades
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Good lord. Thought I'd seen it all.
Anything not to have to work & go through a bunch of paperwork I guess.
Wonder wtf they consider as "talents"? Other than being a gang-banging dope-dealing thug?
Sorry, that's how it sounds.
Guys, read between the lines. UW's admission standards have gone so high, recently, that it must have been hard to get all the inner city athletes....
They probably got 'em 'cause that's all there was. :-p~~~~~~
Nothing good can be said about this, so...
Got that right.
I have seen many 4.o students with no skills or ability to properly utilize there intelligence at all. To do it on race is racism but to consider other factors is quite reasonable to me. Creative thinking, the ability to think broadly is far more useful to society than rote thinking.
And your proposal to weed out the gang-banging thugs from the decent kids who want to use their creativity in a constructive way would be...
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