While 1/3 of the FSU soccer team is from other countries.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWhy must they ensure that? Please explain real benefit of admitting anyone other the than the brightest? If the top 3000 applying happen to be African American or any minority, then bring them in. If not, FSU or UCF or fine plan B and plan C schools.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostUF has 30 players on the roster with 3 international, 17 from Florida, and 10 from out of state.
Surprised that FSU’s roster is only at 24, but maybe I shouldn’t be seeing they are almost certainly using big scholarship dollars on those international and out of state students.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostState schools can offer more in state players less scholarship %, because a lot of the girls will qualify for Bright Futures and help offset the students financial burden. Frees up more scholarship money for out of state / international players. Also, leads to larger rosters...typically in the neighborhood of 30.
Surprised that FSU’s roster is only at 24, but maybe I shouldn’t be seeing they are almost certainly using big scholarship dollars on those international and out of state students.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Post"As we become more selective and become higher-ranked, we don’t want to lose the soul of the university — that it’s a university intended, as all public universities are, for all people," President Kent Fuchs said.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/educat...rdue_171057831
So in other words, there is no good reason other than satisfying you and your like minded rabble. In the end, the best should be admitted for their superior effort, intellect and potential contribution to society and the world. Any other reason is just an excuse to give the mediocre the opportunity to fail in a competitive academic arena. Race should have nothing to do with it. Society tries to force feed the system due to some ill-conceived notion of fair play. Merit, not skin color should be the deciding factor. You want soul? Buy some Motown records.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSo in other words, there is no good reason other than satisfying you and your like minded rabble. In the end, the best should be admitted for their superior effort, intellect and potential contribution to society and the world. Any other reason is just an excuse to give the mediocre the opportunity to fail in a competitive academic arena. Race should have nothing to do with it. Society tries to force feed the system due to some ill-conceived notion of fair play. Merit, not skin color should be the deciding factor. You want soul? Buy some Motown records.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Post'Florida’s ban on race-based admissions, plus UF’s rising ranks and more competitive applicant pool, can make the goal of diversity more difficult. UF has to ensure that it’s not losing students of color to other top schools — especially in states with more need-based aid.
Student body president Ian Green, who is black, has launched Bridges, an initiative with UF admissions that reaches into Florida high schools to give underrepresented students academic support and help visiting campus.
UF also offers resources like the Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars Program, which each year supports 350 low-income, first-generation students.'
These supports and scholarships are helping attract more low income students to attend UF.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostYou think the Asian students can win a Supreme Court case against Harvard?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostLet me let you in on the university system’s ability to still enroll people with less than their desired SAT and GPA. They admit them to a spring class so they don’t have to count them or to their online college so they don’t count them in the admission numbers. Admission numbers for rankings are just what you admit for the fall class. These unversities want numbers, and their name brand recognition allows them to offer alternative admissions so they don’t count. Students want in so bad to a few of these universities that they will take anything to get in so they can say they are attending these name brand institution. Many don’t make it and it’s ok, because they don’t count against the university retention or graduation numbers.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postnot the poster...Harvard's position is that non quantifiable attributes are often times the difference makers between admittance and rejection. A perfect student on paper may have zero personality, or do little else beside just study. That isn't who they want. They have tens of thousands of near perfect students to chose from. The students would have to prove a deliberate system of discrimination against them as a race, something I think is going to be difficult to do.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postnot the poster...Harvard's position is that non quantifiable attributes are often times the difference makers between admittance and rejection. A perfect student on paper may have zero personality, or do little else beside just study. That isn't who they want. They have tens of thousands of near perfect students to chose from. The students would have to prove a deliberate system of discrimination against them as a race, something I think is going to be difficult to do.
"During the CBS Evening News, legal correspondent Jan Crawford treated the case with all the seriousness that it deserved. “In a 40-page legal brief, the Justice Department said Harvard ‘engages in unlawful racial balancing’ when selecting its incoming classes, siding with Asian-American students who are suing the university,” she informed viewers.
While Harvard denied the allegations, the Justice Department thought otherwise. “’Harvard's race-based admissions process significantly disadvantages Asian-American applicants,’” Crawford read from the report. “’[C]ompared to applicants of other racial groups.’”
“The filing was widely expected as the Justice Department targets affirmative action in college admissions on multiple fronts. Last month it reversed Obama-era guidelines that encouraged schools to consider race in college admissions,” she continued." ,,,...
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThis is asking for students to lie on their applications. UF and FSU will never check to see proof if a student is working 30 hours at the local market or is president of the national honor society. Students are fluffing up their applications to look good on paper. The humble, honest, hard working students are paying the price of not getting admitted because they look like boring students who can never account to any great leader. Also isn't college a place for students to bloom and grow into leaders? Now they have to be the superhuman high school student with the non qualifiable attributes to get admitted.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostRacial diversity percentage prove nothing except maybe that fewer African American apply to these schools. File a law suit like the Asian did against Harvard and see where it gets you. If you have the grades/scores to get in, the universities will be tripping over each other to give you merit awards for tuition. Quit being sniveling idiot and work for it.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostForget about reading the essay. If a school wants to offer a spot to 1000 minorities, the computer will sort the top 1000 minorities regardless of the mean scores. That is how I see it.
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