I've seen many Black people made to feel inferior by comments like this, which have the result of implying that the reason they probably got in was because a "superior" student didn't.
This is true in many cases. If true statements about a policy cause people to experience negative feelings, that is a problem with the policy, not the people speaking truth to power.
By the way, here are the stats. The majority of black students at elite schools (at least as of 2006) didn't even get a 1400 on their SAT:
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I've seen many Black people made to feel inferior by comments like this, which have the result of implying that the reason they probably got in was because a "superior" student didn't.
This is true in many cases. If true statements about a policy cause people to experience negative feelings, that is a problem with the policy, not the people speaking truth to power.
By the way, here are the stats. The majority of black students at elite schools (at least as of 2006) didn't even get a 1400 on their SAT:
http://www.jbhe.com/features/53_SAT.html
In medical school, blacks who were accepted are a standard deviation below the mean:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080801022539/http://www.aamc.or...