Study: Students admitted through Affirmative Action perform better than "Legacy Admissions" students

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It's time to cut off all government funding to colleges and universities that use these aristocratic legacy admissions policies.

http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7277.shtml

Affirmative Action Admits Tend To Be More Successful Than Legacy Admits, Says Study

Researchers at Princeton University have found that students who received legacy admissions are more likely to face academic challenges than Blacks who were admitted under affirmative action admissions programs.

Despite their findings, the programs remain a target of critics, as anti-affirmative action groups look to duplicate the success of Michigan’s voter-approved ban on race-based preferences in college admissions. Arizona, Colorado, Missouri and Oklahoma are the next battlegrounds.

In a study published in the February 2007 journal Social Problems, Princeton sociologists Douglas S. Massey and Margarita Mooney used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen to compile a sample of nearly 4,000 students at 28 colleges and universities. They found that 77 percent of the Black students surveyed were the beneficiaries of affirmative action. By comparison, 48 percent of all legacies benefited from admissions preferences.

After compiling the sample, Massey and Mooney developed models that test claims about the effects of affirmative action, specifically the mismatch hypothesis, which states that those who get racial preferences do poorly in school because they are under-prepared. Their study looked at the college performance of three groups: minorities, athletes and legacies, students given admission preferences because their parents attended that school.

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[Nikki Stone1]

1. I agree.

:kick: and recommend

[bananas]

2. k&r nt

[Celebration]

3. here is the next paragraph

The authors say they did not find strong evidence for the mismatch hypothesis among minorities. Overall, legacies had the best grades, earning a GPA of 3.26 over their first two years, followed by athletes at 3.12 and minorities at 3.05. Although they earned lower grades, Blacks who received admissions preferences did not have unusually low grades and were as likely as other Blacks to stay in college and earn a degree.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Fucking VINDICATED, I am.

I've been saying this all along. But beware of the blow-back. Affirmative Action students & employees get far more than their share of grief and hostility from resentful anglo-American students & co-workers, and I'm willing to bet that it will burn most of them out early.