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Unqualified here meaning (none / 0) (#56)
by Big Tent Democrat on Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 03:58:22 PM EST
based solely on academic records (or "merit" as some want to describe it.)

Unqualifed to be accepted.

Frankly, you still have no idea what the point is.

I'll use the hypothetical I just gave Pancho to see if you can understand the point:

Let's consider a hypothetical.
Let's say you are a student, a white student, with no special factors that weigh in favor of your admission except your academic record.
You apply to a school.

It has 1000 slots. Of those slots, a certain number x, are likely to go to students because of factors other than academic record.

0.67x of those students admitted are white.

0.33x of those students admitted are non-white.

Which of the preferences applied is most likely to cause you to lose a place that, absent consideration of those factors. you would otherwise have?

What is more likely to cause "unfairness" to you?

That is the point. The statistic clearly overwhelmingly supports that point.

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