2/ Cornell, like all colleges, is deeply desperate to signal their progressive bonafides by having lots of black students.
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3/ unfortunately, just aren't that many blacks applying to Cornell with sufficient SATs, grades, skills, raw talent to keep up w others
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4/ ...so CU gives a DRASTIC boost to black applicants. Tons of African American students at Cornell are barely cut out for community college
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5/ ...and they're thrown into an Ivy. They get all sorts of benefits that white students don't: special tutors, special study rooms,
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6/ profs being super lenient and grading them on an informal "I really really really want you to do well" curve.
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7/ ...and yet you can watch the first two or three semesters as a huge percent of AfAm students transfer from various majors into
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8/ African Studies, or whatever. The whole thing is a farce.
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