Michigan vs Virginia

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hoedown - the URM graduation rate at UC Berkeley went up 6.5 percent after the passage of Proposition 209

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<p>I was wrong to state they moved the opposite. I had it turned around--it's not that they've gone down since, but that they made such gains before 209.</p>

<p>And it's on that basis that I continue to challenge the prediction made earlier that Michigan's black graduation rate will "skyrocket." It wouldn't surprise me if they went up, but this prediction that they'll go through the roof seems uninformed. There are real challenges that face some URMs when it comes to retention--which do not begin and end with "underqualification."</p>

<p>Hoedown, Michigan's current graduate rate is 86%, so it can't really "go through the roof", but I would not be surprised if it improved to 90% as a result of the new admissions policy.</p>