[GrandTheftR]

MLK said this in his famouse speech "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." [0]

This is so sad with what many colleges/states are pushing for now. I am all for college admission policy to help out low incoming group, based on his/her economy status, which the children were born into, but not discrimination based on skin color, which the children were born with.

[0] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/martinluth115056....

[Anechoic]

MLK said this in his famouse speech

MLK also said: "Whenever the issue of compensatory treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic."

I am all for college admission policy to help out low incoming group, based on his/her economy status, [..] but not discrimination based on skin color

The problem is that research has shown that institutional discrimination is not just based on economics, but also on race (for example, Prager's research showing that a white job applicant with a criminal record is more likely to get a job callback than a black applicant without a criminal record). Ignoring race isn't the answer. As for what is the answer, that's a much harder problem which is why we're still wrestling with it.

[skywhopper]

One's SAT score is not a measure of the content of one's character. In any case, the study being quoted here did not give any evidence that race was even being used as a factor in admissions decisions.

If you favor giving bonus points based on one's economic status, then that will correlate to the same sort of results this study revealed, with black and hispanic populations being over-represented versus an admissions policy based purely on standardized test scores.