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sybbie719-I have seen your "stats" many times.
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<p>Not my stats as i did not conduct any studies. Your issue lies with the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education who did the research and may know just a little bit more about the topic than you as they have been studying trends longer than you have been walking the earth.</p>
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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.
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<p>And this is based on??? Can you provide some data to support this???? </p>
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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.
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<p>And you know this how? Based on your limited frame of reference? I can tell you from my own limited frame if we are talking out of our hats, that I attended a large public university, had no hand holding. Graduated and completed masters programs at Cornell (your school with a 3.97), and NYU currently a PhD student (but I guess you were not talking about me).</p>