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Ah yes, this is the minorities' fault. > You have to assume that affirmative action has thinned the talent at the university to the point the student body can

• nemo44x 4y ago
  > Oh, do you? So affirmative action has pushed out the elite whites and now mediocrity reigns? It's actually pushed out mainly elite Asians. Just look at acceptance rates and the scores required to get in based on race and sex. Asians of both sexes have to far surpass everyone else and white males in particular have to as well. Because of this, the student body is made up of more and more people that may be quite smart, but are not elite. They don't belong in these institutions and the institutions can no longer be considered elite because their student body no longer is. The evidence is things like this story. The student body has weakened in intellectual ability enough to the point that this institution felt compelled to lower their standard, which also means American universities have lost some standing globally. I can only expect that the students coming from these institutions are not at the level they used to be.