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Without delving too much into my personal position on AA, which is most likely skewed due to my being a white male, I had another question. Could someone explain the descrepancies in bar pass rate described in the article. Assuming that he was speaking of similarly talented students who attent an elite and non-elite school, why would the non-elite school student actually do better on the bar? Assuming that they both had equal abilities, and the elite school is supposed to be superior, can the difference be explained soley on the negative self-efficacy feelings of recieving C's rather than A's?
For the record, even if AA's only significant contribution is to eliminate the "legacy bias" then that to me is grounds to keep it in place. It is tough to hear stories about white male students with markedly superior grades being passed over for minority students with somewhat less stellar grades. However, since they may not have attended the same school (i.e. different grading or racial prejudice), and given the recently questioned racial bias in standardized tests, maybe it's not as bad a thing as it's made out to be.
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