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Austin Independent School District is recalculating the GPA and class rank of hundreds of its senior students after discovering inconsistencies in its ranking process. The review of grades has already changed the rank of some students in the top 15 percent of their high school class.
A coding glitch for high school math students took in spring or summer 2020 could change their class rank.
Make sure it is fair and equitable. >> i think the exciting thing about this decision is that it forces our leaders to look at the root causes of why people are not able to get, if you do it just based on merit. to me it looks like deplorable public school systems. we have teachers and colleges that are training teachers to be activists and marxist. what are asian families doing right that we can learn from? i think there is a real opportunity to get things right. alex it was so great to have you on and get your point of view. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> good luck at brown in the fall....
And tells us what could happen. california uses now 13 factors to judge who gets in, and who doesn't, from class rank and gpa to personal achievement. race is not one of those boxes. so, being when voters banned affirmative action, black and hispanic enrollment like ucla and berkeley fell by 40%. last year's am ning class, 3% black, 20% hispanic, less than half the statewide population figures. but 43% were asian, three times higher than the statewide population. experts say universities will adjust by using algorithms to compensate for race, looking at crime and poverty rates of the applicant...
Case. no, we are not. these schools were giving advantages to kids who did not meet the standards of the average student at the school. there was one brief submitted that said that the average asian student to harvard, the average asian male had about a 25% chance of being admitted. if you kept all of those credentials the same, class rank, test scores and so forth but you changed his race to black, his chances of admission jumped to 95%. so race was not being used as a tipping point or a small advantage, it was the factor. and that is the problem here. it wasn't just the sort of dubious const...