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Another thing affirmative action was never meant to entail is a reduction of admissions standards. There are numerous critics who argue that this has been its effect in practice. As of now, however, the only evidence these critics can marshal are comparisons of the renowned "numerical" admissions criteria--test score and grades. Yet it is becoming more and more clear to admissions officers that, affirmative action aside, the numerical statistics are only of limited value in determining a student's over-all qualifications and potential. Admissions officers have grown to appreciate more and more over the past decade that other...
...states "race, like other factors cited by the court as pertinent in interpreting test scores--socio-economic background, educational opportunities, etc.--is a factor bearing directly on the interpretation of test scores, grades and other evidence. To insist that the admission process must rely exclusively on racially neutral criteria and must exclude consideration of race in the interpretation of data is in fact to require discrimination on account of race...
Edgar S. Cahn, dean of Antioch School of Law, said this week, "In some sense, the question Bakkeposes is, 'How willing is a school to challenge the numberical criteria [grades and test scores] as adequately qualifying factors in the admission process...
...evidence we have says those blessed scores don't say a damn thing about contribution or competence," Cahn said, adding that "to the extent that universities pretend or hide behind the facade of tests and numerical criteria, they regress in this question...
Cahn advocates a departure from numerical criteria, not only for disadvantaged minority students, but for all applicants. "Why is it," he asked, "when we look at a minority application, we look at all sorts of personality characteristics such as integrity, morality and staying power? Why is it we're not willing to apply the same criteria to whites...