The truth about 'holistic' college admissions

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@TatinG

It could go even further into licensing exams like the bar or the boards for medicine. But I don’t know if the disparate impact rule applies to cases of that type.

Yes, i wondered about that. If disparate impact can be claimed over qualification exams for firefighters, then why not for lawyers or other professions.

FYI. In NY state, a greater number of minority aspiring teachers are not passing the teacher licensing exam:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/nyregion/with-tougher-teacher-licensing-exams-a-question-of-racial-discrimination.html?_r=0&referrer=

Concerned that education schools were turning out too many middling graduates, states have been introducing more difficult teacher licensing exams. Perhaps not surprisingly, passing rates have fallen. But minority candidates have been doing especially poorly, jeopardizing a long-held goal of diversifying the teaching force so it more closely resembles the makeup of the country’s student body.

Maybe someone can start a separate thread on this. Jailbirds cannot start new threads.