Comments on: More Blacks entering Ivy league schools

By: enraged

enraged — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:32:12 +0000

Lynette, I have deleted your comment due to your excessive offensive language. I think you can make a decent point without going there.

Duane (admin)

By: cynthia

cynthia — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:27:33 +0000

I think the students are qualified. I know Northwestern has tried to recruit more minority students but the competition is stiff. If you make it this far, you are smart enough to get in and finish. What I’ve seen is that other people who make it this far had helped getting to this point. I tell people all the time, these other groups are not that smart. I see it, I have experienced this. Sometimes I think people are here because they are white, or because they have moeny, it is so obvious that they are not here because they are smart. Therefore, even if affirmative action have helped some black people get into college, it is no different than anything I have personally observed with other groups.

By: Duane

Duane — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:47:49 +0000

Yet there has been a sharp decline in Black enrollment in law schools during a time when enrollment is on the rise. Keep in mind that UCLA and all other colleges/universites here in CA has been banned from using race as a factor when enrolling students. So it seems to me that if these kids are able to ‘cut the mustard’, according to you they should have no problem. But the numbers out here do not arrive to that same conclusion.

My question here pertains more to these students who are now getting into ivy league schools. While I am fully confident that many of these kids got there on their own merit, I am just as confident that many were also given special considerations because of the color of their skin.

BTW, go with the GTI.

I could not comment on your site because I had to register (and I was too lazy to do so). I thought about going for the GLI (the 4 door version), but my wallet suggested that I go with the tamer cousin, the VW Jetta 2.0.

By: MIB

MIB — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:36:25 +0000

Antonio Villaraigosa’s failure to pass the bar represents a true minority of law school grads, minority or otherwise.

IIRC, approximately 70+% of ‘minority’ law school grads pass their respective state bar exams on the first try. Presuming the great majority of them to be AA admissions, they’ve obviously demonstrating an ability to handle the rigors of law school first by graduating, then passing the bar, thereby deconstructing the notion AA ‘lowers standards’.