<p>sybbie719-I have seen your "stats" many times. URMs graduate at only slightly below the rates of whites/asians because of the grade inflation at those selective institutions. It doesn't necessarily mean they learned as much or did as well as whites/asians. At selective institutions that do not have grade inflation (like Cornell, the school I attend), URMs struggle much more and the disparity is much more pronounced.</p>
<p>Furthermore, many more URMs (and people of every other race) go to public instutitions where the disparity in graduation rates is much bigger. Often this problem gets ignored because, after all, we have affirmative action. This is why I suggest that we do away with affirmative action based on race and start at a lower level. This is the only way to help the few URMs at selective, grade-inflated colleges as well as the majority of URMs at larger, public schools where they aren't going to hold your hand.</p>