Victor Davis Hanson
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And, you know, statistically, African-American applicants who are admitted often range between 150 to 200 points lower than whites who are admitted about 30 to 50 points lower than Asian-Americans.
So we all know that.
And that's not the end of it, Michelle.
When you have a university, whether it's legacy or athletes, but much more numbers of DEI, then that's the beginning of it.
So then the faculty who are all left say, if you talk to them off the recordβ¦
And I used to all the time as a faculty member.
Well, we only have three choices.
We either have to lower the amount of work required because we have too many students that weren't prepared, or we have to introduce new courses or the favored route.
We're going to change our grading.
So Yale gives 80% of A's.
Stanford's about 70% of A's.
And then that's not the...
the end of it.
Then you get people in Silicon Valley, you meet and they'll say, hey, Victor, you know, this is really weird.
Stanford used to have the SAT.
They dropped it for four years.
And I've noticed that coders are people in computer science, are people in
the humanities, I would rather hire someone from Southern Methodist or Georgia Tech or SMU than I would Stanford graduate anybody the last four years.
And then you say, well, why?
Because they don't have the compositional skills or the training that other people from these Southern universities do of all colors, nothing to do with race.