Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action - Reason Foundation

29ty, so it is remarkable that grade-point averageswould be going up alongside increases in the numberof science and engineering majors. Combinethose victories with an increase in graduationrates. When graduation rates increase it is generallybecause some weaker students, who mighthave dropped out in an earlier time, are managingto make it to the end. One would thus expect increasinggraduation rates to have a depressive effecton grade-point averages and/or on the proportionof students majoring in science and engineering.But instead improvements were made in allthree areas. It is as if Ford had come up with anew automobile that was both more luxurious andbetter on gasoline mileage—and cheaper too.Why is all this evidence being ignored by affirmativeaction advocates? Perhaps Leo Tolstoyhas some wisdom to impart on this subject:I know that most men, including those atease with problems of the greatest complexity,can seldom accept even the simplest andmost obvious truth if it be such as wouldoblige them to admit the falsity of conclusionswhich they have delighted in explainingto colleagues, which they have proudlytaught to others, and which they have woven,thread by thread, into the fabric of theirlives.MISMATCH at x (quoting Leo Tolstoy).To be sure, over the years since then, the UChas developed techniques that allow it to circumventCCRI in part while still enabling it to arguepublicly that it is in compliance. As a result, its