Affirmative action fail

A US Department of Education study, "Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2008" (PDF), examined graduation rates from 4-year institutions by race/ethnicity (see Table 5):

Grad.       Ethnicity
rate
66.1%      Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander
59.3%      White
46.5%      Hispanic or Latino
38.9%      Black or African American
37.9%      American Indian or Alaska  Native

A liberal would look at these statistics and declare that colleges and universities are racist. A more reasonable conclusion would be that the "beneficiaries" of affirmative action do not benefit: they end up in schools for which they are not qualified and drop-out. Whichever explanation you accept, affirmative action is not working.

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