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Education

Jun. 29, 2009

Nixing the SAT Will Help Schools Looking to Increase Diversity

Universities looking for a legally acceptable way to increase diversity should consider going SAT-free, writes Patrick Mattimore.

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By Patrick Mattimore

Ever since 1996, when the anti-affirmative action measure became law in California, the state's public university system, the University of California, has been looking for ways to increase the diversity of the system's flagship universities (Berkeley and UCLA) without running afoul of the law - unsuccessfully.

A recent University of Pennsylvania law review article should give affirmative action a new push...

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