Jennifer Gratz challenges Detroit high schooler to affirmative action debate

[alp227]

Source: Ann Arbor News

Jennifer Gratz has issued a challenge to a Detroit teenager who has protested University of Michigan's admissions policies after being rejected from the school this year.

The challenge? A debate on affirmative action.

Brooke Kimbrough, who is black, joined a group of U-M hopefuls on the Ann Arbor campus Tuesday during a protest of the school's admissions policies. Kimbrough and other protesters, who support affirmative action, said U-M's admissions process is stacked against minority students.

The student protesters are organized by By Any Means Necessary, a group aimed at increasing diversity at U-M and other campuses across the nation.

Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/04/jennifer_gratz_challenges_detr.html

[MrScorpio]

1. Gratz is a woman who has built her rep fighting Affirmative Action

She's the kind the person whose mission in life to make sure that there are less Black and Brown bodies going Blue.

"Brave" woman, picking on young people.

[KeepItReal]

2. I'd put my money on the young people in that debate

[Ken Burch]

4. What gets me is that Gratz(IIRC) ended up getting admitted ANYWAY.

She got what she wanted in the end, why wasn't that enough?

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. She was granted admission to U of T ...

in the first place, just not the school's business program ... just like 350+ other candidates, a significant number of which are Black AND higher scoring than her.

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. I would love for Kimbro to ask Gratz ...

If you were truly denied admission, in favor of a lesser qualified Black candidate, how do you explain the 50+, lesser scoring (than you), white candidates that were offered admission AND the 100+ higher scoring (than you) Black candidates that were denied admission?

The facts of her case stunk, even to the point where her attorney admitted that she was NOT denied in favor of a less-qualified Black candidate, nor did U of T's AA policy, negatively affect her admission status.

[jtuck004]

3. She ought to take her up on it. Get some training from people at the school and have a public

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forum.

And have the high school debate coach officiate it. And if they don't have one, make that an issue.

Would be a great educational experience.

[Armadotrasgo]

5. You mean the B student

(From a grade-inflated charter no less) with the sub-par ACT? Why bother?

[alp227]

6. Her ACT score is published in several outlets,

but how do you know about her school being "grade inflated"?

[Armadotrasgo]

7. Just a guess

around my neck of the woods, charters are widely regarded as grade inflators. It keeps the parents happy.

[LuckyLib]

8. Getting in to a major research I university is difficult

whatever way u look at it. They customarily get 35,000 freshman applicants for 5-6,000 spaces. No guarantees.

[Armadotrasgo]

9. I don't think it was always

this way, but Ohio State has also become a school that will wait list 4.0 students, if not flat out reject them.

[bluestateguy]

10. A professional activist in her 30's is going to debate a 17 year old girl?

Not a good idea.

Brooke might be better served by getting her test scores up or exploring other options for college, rather than blaming other people for her falling short at UM.