March 30, 2001

Racial Preferences in College Admissions

To the Editor:

We found the conclusions reached in the report issued by the Center for Equal Opportunity titled "Pervasive Preferences: Interactive 'Predictors' " to be deeply flawed ("Most Colleges Use Racial Preferences in Admissions, Foe of Affirmative Action Finds," March 2). Designing a predictor that considers only grades, test scores, and race or ethnicity represents a highly misleading and dishonest attempt to suggest that colleges make decisions solely on the basis of three

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