<p>"etc. (and please don’t tell me that they didn’t get in due to a personality defect). "</p>
<p>i’m not the one reading applications, so i couldn’t tell you why some Asian-American students are not accepted. (just to note, Asian-Americans are included as URMs.) but to automatically assume this, without knowing the full portrait of these applicants, i feel is foolish. </p>
<p>“think you’re missing the point when it comes to correlational observations about test scores and admissions in terms of URM”</p>
<p>with all due respect, i think you’re missing my point. you see “black or hispanic” and automatically assume that they have URM status. URM status, as i mentioned before, is more than simply race. my point is that i believe that the example given as it was (without knowing anymore about the applicants than race and SAT scores) is not being fair. yes, i understand that affirmative action aids URMs, but that doesn’t take away from my point. and i for one am glad that colleges don’t accept people simply based on SAT stats.</p>
<p>“Otherwise, you are claiming that hispanics have better personalities than white students on average.”</p>
<p>nonsense. re-read what i wrote. i didn’t write anything about differences in personalities. i simply hold that its foolish to make such assertions without knowing the full portrait of these applicants. (i must say though, that i’m shocked that so many people are pointing to SAT and race scores alone to support their arguments)</p>
<p>just for the record (and i’ve made this point in previous threads), i personally do not support affirmative action. however, i feel that it should be up for the people in a state to decide whether affirmative action will be used in their state’s public institutions of higher learning. but i feel private institutions should be allowed to use affirmative action if they so choose (and quite frankly, so do many of their donors).</p>