(04-17-2017 10:17 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(04-17-2017 10:11 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  What you are asking UGA to do is damage itself for an ideological reason.

You can look at the common data sets and see that very few black males come even close to the 25th percentile range in this scores. That's a problem the University cannot fix.

Well, HOD ... not that I think you should believe in the idea ... and not even sure that I believe it fully myself ...

... but there is such a thing as affirmative action.

There are limits to it.

I don't think anybody doubts that UGA, and most other major universities, practice AA.

The problem is that for every person with a 17 ACT you let in you must admit somebody with a 30 or else your scores skew downward which hurts the rankings which draw in the kids.

Imagine what would happen to UGA if you suddenly shifted the 25th percentile to the average of a Deep South HBCU. UGA's bottom 25th would skew down 7-8 points. That's the difference between a top 30% test taker and a bottom 15%.

However, that is a bit outside the original point, which is that numbers are low because the number of competitive applicants are low.