A NOTE OF INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY: Regarding Bush's speech on us yesterday, and those against the U of M system more generally.
One of the fun little facts they like to note at any available opportunity is that if you're part of a racial minority, you get 20 points (out of 100 needed for automatic admission), whereas for a perfect SAT score, you only get 12. The hidden assumption is obvious: people who get perfect SAT scores will be rejected, and unqualified people will take their place. And since I had to read the Law School decision as part of a previous PoliSci course, I feel qualified to make general statements about both. Here goes:
1. If you get high test scores (be they ACTs or LSATs), have excellent grades, and take a reasonably difficult course-load (wait for it... wait for it...) YOU WILL GET IN
2. Everyone else who has a less than impeccable record will not necessarily get in.
It's not as if either one of the two people who filed the suits got 1600s on their SATs and had 4.0s. They were slightly higher-than-average, if that. You want to make sure you get into a good school? WORK HARDER.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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