Affirmative Action In College

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At the same time that I believe that Affirmative Action is a beneficial boost to get minorities flowing into college, I most strongly believe that Affirmative Action is not helpful because it does not have an effective result for those who really require it. According to Milles Cowin “The study, which spanned from 1968 to 1982, reported that about 45% of the students who were accepted as a result of affirmative action, despite lower grades and test scores, were white.” (124). The essence of this data is to point out that although affirmative action is aiding a vast amount of minority students, it actually does not specifically help the targeted group of; women, African American, and other minorities. Based off of this we can tell that the effectiveness of this beneficial mandate was not taken advantage of by the people whom it was meant to assist, since “45% of the students who were accepted as a result of affirmative action… were white.” Writing an article for USA Today, Greg Toppo and Anthony BeBarros discuss, “Whatever the cause, it’s clear that many poor and minority students never make it to college.…show more content…
This continues to support my claim that affirmative action had no point since the people needing the assistance did not take advantage of it by not even trying hard to get into college. Where in fact these “poor and minorities students” are the ones who REALLY need to attend a four year college and receive at least a bachelor degree to prosper in

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