![]() And everybody kind of realizes that, deep down, that’s what they are shrieking about - their lack of either cleverness or hotness. In contrast, the shrieking black coeds of 2015 tend to be neither clever nor hot. So the Sixties were a big deal, because beautiful young women are always a big deal, as is whatever they think is cool at the moment. ![]() And the clever radicals tended to attract some hot babes. So the reigning theories, while puerile, were at least clever. In contrast, back in the 1960s, campus radicals were heavily Jewish. It is critical to understand that these are not bad students.īut they also aren’t really good students, so the ideas articulated by protesters aren’t very intellectually impressive. They soon realize that no matter how hard they work, they will struggle academically. Put yourself in the position of many Hispanic and especially black students (recipients of by far the largest racial preferences) at selective schools, who may work heroically during the first semester only to be lost in many classroom discussions and dismayed by their grades.Īs they start to see the gulf between their own performance and that of most of their fellow students, dismay can become despair. At least one careful study shows that students are more likely to become friends with peers who are similar in academic accomplishment. This, in turn, increases these students’ isolation and self-segregation from the higher-achieving Asians and whites who flourish in more challenging courses. That’s a very bad place to be at any school. And so on down the selectivity scale.Īs a result, experts agree, most black students at even moderately selective schools - with high school preparation and test scores far below those of their classmates - rank well below the middle of their college and grad school classes, with between 25% and 50% ranking in the bottom tenth. This leaves schools like UNC able to meet their own racial targets only by giving large preferences to black students who are well qualified for less selective schools like (say) the University of Missouri but not for UNC. ![]() ![]() They bring in black students who are well qualified for moderately elite schools like (say) the University of North Carolina, but not for the Ivies that recruit them. Therefore, those schools can meet their racial admissions targets only by using large preferences. Only 1 to 2 percent of black college applicants emerge from high school well-qualified academically for (say) the top Ivy League colleges. offers a mismatch theory for the Black Autumn in The American Spectator: ![]()
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