On Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, The Austin American Statesman published an article on how a white student who applied for admission was denied because of race. The UT freshman addmission go as follows, 81% of the freshman class graduated in the top 10 percent, these slot are only judge by class rank not anything else. leaving only about 1,200 slots available for students outside the top 10 percent. There were an estimated of 16,000 students competing for those 1,200 slots. The reason for this lawsuit is because she says that she was more deserving of that slot then a minority who got it because of race being a factor in those 1,200 slots.
The intended audience of this artical are students that are applying to any college not just UT. Mainly those that will be effected by the fact that their race might be the critical factor in whether they are addmitied and not as much their grades. This commonly applies to whites more often then other races but it could end up being that a college has a large amount of ethnic applicants and be the other way around. This author sound credible. The reason i believe that is because even though they are trying to prove a point they are still reasonably objective. Giving lots of information on the subject and bringing alot of points from both sides. Also at least for me i did not know if they were for or against affirmative action untill the end of the artical.(affirmative action; Is to take factors including race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group.) The claim of this artical is very good and is supported by factual information. It makes sence and it logical and it really convinced me.
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