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Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: JBA on October 17, 2003, 04:38:14 PM
like to have gone to Berkley, but didn't have the sat scores to get in, well maybe thats not the problem.


http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/10/17/124657.shtml
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: medicboy on October 17, 2003, 05:53:26 PM
Totaly in line with Berkley, no suprise there, they are all stupid.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Gunslinger on October 17, 2003, 06:30:47 PM
How DARE the other schools let any Smart white people go to college.  Who do they think they are, educators or somthing?

GO BERKLEY
:mad:
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: midnight Target on October 17, 2003, 06:39:21 PM
idiotic kneejerk crap.


I'll compare the facts regarding a Berkely Education to any STATE University in the Nation.

Go ahead... name one...... Make my day.:cool:
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: mrblack on October 17, 2003, 06:42:56 PM
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Originally posted by midnight Target
idiotic kneejerk crap.


I'll compare the facts regarding a Berkely Education to any STATE University in the Nation.

Go ahead... name one...... Make my day.:cool:


Maybe so.
but does it still make it right?
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Gunslinger on October 17, 2003, 06:42:59 PM
its not about the "Education" MT  its the fact that they RACIALLY DISCRIMINATE by allowing lower qualified applicants entrance based on the COLOR OF THERE SKIN and not my there TEST RESULTS.  


That children is called "RACISM" and "DISCRIMINATION"
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Sandman on October 17, 2003, 07:12:15 PM
Berkeley is hardly the only university that uses affirmative action.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: AKIron on October 17, 2003, 07:18:25 PM
No surprise here. Why is the chancellor upset about the revelation? Not like everyone doesn't already know it, or at least suspect it.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Sikboy on October 17, 2003, 07:31:55 PM
On an interesting side note, I just started school at George Washington this fall, after having received a BA from the University of California at Riverside. I can't believe how many crackers there are in my class here :eek:

-Sik
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Gunslinger on October 17, 2003, 07:54:33 PM
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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Berkeley is hardly the only university that uses affirmative action.


OH....so alabama is hardley the only state that has KKK meetings....does that make it right?
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: 10Bears on October 17, 2003, 08:12:38 PM
So before Carl Limbacher breaks out the race card, aren't we at least allowed to see a breakdown of what races are in the 400 students admitted? Or for that matter the race breakdown of the 3200 intelligent students?

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Moores wrote a confidential report to fellow board members revealing that Berkeley (aka Berserkley) last year let in nearly 400 students with SAT scores of only 600 to 1,000, far below the 1,337 average for the class.
Meanwhile, Berserkley refused entry to about 3,200 intelligent students with SAT scores above 1400, including more than 600 students with scores above 1500 out of the maximum 1600. Their crime, of course, is having the wrong color of skin (i.e., white or yellow or that politically incorrect shade of South Asian brown).


BTW JBA, you gonna answer my questions in the other thread?
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Gunslinger on October 17, 2003, 08:23:12 PM
Heres the statistics for 2002

http://osr4.berkeley.edu/public/STAFFWEB/DC/SoNS2002.html (http://osr4.berkeley.edu/public/STAFFWEB/DC/SoNS2002.html)

5421 new students 400 below 600 applicants = 7.37% of all total new studnts.  It didnt break down the stats by test scores though
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: B17Skull12 on October 17, 2003, 08:54:04 PM
JBA what is your thing against CA? ever post you make is against CA why?
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Gunslinger on October 17, 2003, 09:35:41 PM
ALMOST everything wrong with this country I blame on California because it probably started here!
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Sandman on October 17, 2003, 10:50:09 PM
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
OH....so alabama is hardley the only state that has KKK meetings....does that make it right?



No it doesn't. But you don't see posts about Alabama as if it were the sole bastion of the KKK.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Gunslinger on October 17, 2003, 10:54:58 PM
well said, didnt notice your point because comments about california dont offend.  
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Whats sad about this article...and i'm sorry bout not knowing the names cause I dont feel like looking back on it.....is this guy who wrote this letter is being demonized for pointing all this out.  I agree this problem isnt just califronia, but I think its worth pointing out that this is happening all over the nation and is in fact WRONG.

"Racism for diversity is no better than racism for segregation!"

-me, 10-17-2003

LOL
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Holden McGroin on October 17, 2003, 11:02:19 PM
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Originally posted by midnight Target


I'll compare the facts regarding a Berkely Education to any STATE University in the Nation.

Go ahead... name one...... Make my day.:cool:


I hear Massachucetts Institute of Technology is thought of highly.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Gunslinger on October 17, 2003, 11:09:45 PM
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I hear Massachucetts Institute of Technology is thought of highly.


LOL

I heard Devry is a better school than berkley...cheaper too
here's a few more:

Elk Snout Comm. Col.
Ren & Stimpy How to school
Paxton beatuy academy
Truckin USA
The Derick Zoolander school for children who don't read good
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Blackbal on October 17, 2003, 11:18:55 PM
I applied to berkeley in 1995 with a 1410 SAT score and got denied.  An African-american friend of mine from my high school class also applied with a 1070 SAT score and was admitted.  Berserkeley is exactly how we describe it.  I think this sort of thing needs to be taken into account by employers of Berkeley grads.  The over-blown reputation of the school needs to be re-examined.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Gunslinger on October 17, 2003, 11:22:55 PM
If I'm from south africa but have white skin can I check the african-american spot on the application?  Do you have to back up your race?  Would I have to prove i'm actually an "Eskimo"?  I think people need to find better "leagle" ways to cheat the system.

Sorry for the multiple posts but stuff like this gets my blood boil
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Sikboy on October 17, 2003, 11:39:30 PM
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Originally posted by Blackbal
I applied to berkeley in 1995 with a 1410 SAT score and got denied.  An African-american friend of mine from my high school class also applied with a 1070 SAT score and was admitted.  Berserkeley is exactly how we describe it.  I think this sort of thing needs to be taken into account by employers of Berkeley grads.  The over-blown reputation of the school needs to be re-examined.


Damn, it's too bad you didn't try two years later. If you are/were a California resident, there is a fool proof way to get into Berkley, if that's your thing. Even if you're whiter than the french battle flag (just kidding France, I love you baby).

The California Community College system introduced an honors program that garunteed acceptance to any of the UCs upon completion. It wasn't particularly hard (no harder than getting A's at a UC in my experience) and it was a hell of a lot cheaper to boot.

At the end of the day those who want it, can get it. Sometimes you just have to find another road. And if you stop and complain about how unfair the system is, it will pass you by, fair or not.

Just out of curiosity, how many people in this thread besides Blackbal and I applied to a UC school since the Affirmative Action  ban in 1997?

-Sik
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Montezuma on October 18, 2003, 12:13:26 AM
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Originally posted by 10Bears
So before Carl Limbacher breaks out the race card, aren't we at least allowed to see a breakdown of what races are in the 400 students admitted?


I am waiting to hear that also.  I bet some of them are the stupid children of wealthy alumni.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: medicboy on October 18, 2003, 01:17:40 AM
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Originally posted by B17Skull12
JBA what is your thing against CA? ever post you make is against CA why?


SOmeday you will realize that californistan is not the place to be.  They have made it so the harder you work, the harder they make it to make a living.  If all you want to do is sit around and collect welfare and food stamps and have 13 million kids, life is good.  This state has so much potential it just makes me sick to se how it has turned out and where it is going.  8 days and I am soooo gone.  Just got another offer for a full time job in Montana, going to go play the court and see which one offeres me the best deal.  Even if the Montana thing doesn't work, I am never comming back to this state.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: midnight Target on October 18, 2003, 09:37:06 AM
According to this list, UC Berkely is the highest ranked State University in the Nation. (MIT and CIT don't count)

Rankings (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc/tier1/t1natudoc_brief.php)
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: capt. apathy on October 18, 2003, 10:06:08 AM
so results justify racism?  if I started a company and refused to hire any women or minorities, then that would be ok as long as we had a good profit margin?

if SAT's don't matter for minorities then they shouldn't matter for anyone.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: midnight Target on October 18, 2003, 10:23:03 AM
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
so results justify racism?  if I started a company and refused to hire any women or minorities, then that would be ok as long as we had a good profit margin?

if SAT's don't matter for minorities then they shouldn't matter for anyone.


I was responding to this..
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Totaly in line with Berkley, no suprise there, they are all stupid.

and this
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Who do they think they are, educators or somthing?


But since you brought it up... exactly how did you determin that Berkely had racist policies? Not from that posted article I hope.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: drone on October 18, 2003, 10:51:57 AM
And why not midnight? from their own admittance race is a basis for their policys. Just like affirmative action is based on race...The action clearly decides issues on skin colour alone...
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: medicboy on October 18, 2003, 10:57:23 AM
"Affirmative action" is racism in its purest form, plane and simple.  Giving someone preferance because of race is just wrong.  I am a minority in california, why can't I get special treatment?
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: midnight Target on October 18, 2003, 11:14:48 AM
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Originally posted by drone
from their own admittance race is a basis for their policys.


Please show me where this is admitted.
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: drone on October 18, 2003, 12:02:45 PM
hhmm I can read --can you?
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: -moto- on October 18, 2003, 12:44:13 PM
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Originally posted by medicboy
SOmeday you will realize that californistan is not the place to be.  They have made it so the harder you work, the harder they make it to make a living.  If all you want to do is sit around and collect welfare and food stamps and have 13 million kids, life is good.  This state has so much potential it just makes me sick to se how it has turned out and where it is going.



BINGO GIVE THAT MAN A PRIZE.
So true it hurts:mad:




Moto_MOL
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: midnight Target on October 18, 2003, 01:37:36 PM
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Originally posted by drone
hhmm I can read --can you?


Well one of us certainly can..

Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl
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"You have done the university a great disservice and shown open contempt for reasoned discourse about complex issues,"

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they overcame "disadvantages"

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"They deserve more than derision from the chair of the Board of Regents,"


So where again was this admission of guilt?
Title: How would some of you in Ca.
Post by: Soulyss on October 18, 2003, 01:59:32 PM
I think the crux of the problem is fans of programs like the one Berkeley seems to be using and affirmative action in general will point out that it is unreasonable to expect a rich white kid and a poor black kid (to generalize) to get the same fundamental education and that a lower SAT score is not an indication of anything other than less opportunity for academic growth in K - 12 education.   And that they should not be excluded from higher education because of essentially where they were born.  

Naturally anyone who did get a decent education prior to college loathes the idea that someone who is less qualified in their minds getting something instead of them when they've worked hard towards that goal for years and years.  

and there is no easy answer.