Nope. That number is based on an adjusted stat that already includes race, not raw scores. https://twitter.com/femme_esq/status/675047223227494400 …
.@menaquinone4 @femme_esq It took 20 minutes of digging, but the author is acutally being fucking deceptive and misleading with his "grades:
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claim, not just lazy and confusing grades and scores. The shithead slate author gets his information about the scores of the 841
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students from this article linked in this paragraph: "What’s striking about this case—and what makes it frustrating to some
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observers—is the curious question of Fisher’s academic record. Here is that referenced article which makes the same claim:
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http://www.propublica.org/article/a-colorblind-constitution-what-abigail-fishers-affirmative-action-case-is-r … Here is the quote from that second article, which is equally misleading: "It's true that the university,
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for whatever reason, offered provisional admission to some students with lower test scores and grades than Fisher. Five of those students
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were black or Latino. Forty-two were white." The links in that paragraph are to the respondent's (UT's) brief here: http://www.utexas.edu/vp/irla/Documents/Brief%20for%20Respondents.pdf …
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If you go to page 15/16 of the brief, you will see conclusively that the 42 white people with lower scores admitted ahead of her and 168
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blacks with better scores dinged includes both the academic index and the fuzzy index - the fuzzy index scores including race. So because
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every black person gets a perfect score on the fuzzy score, it so happens that some of them with 1.9 GPA, 800 SAT get dinged - despite
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having a better overall score than Fisher. And as to how whites with an overall score lower than Fisher get in? Who knows?
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