1. Colleges have been aggressively wooing the top African-American and Hispanic students. 2. Almost three in four Hispanic students attend schools that are predominantly minority. 3. Among Hispanic students, more than one-third now say they smoke, up from roughly a quarter. 4. Among the Hispanic students who benefitted from the law was Eric Saenz, who wanted to attend UT but had a low college entrance exam score. 5. An innocent eighth-grade Hispanic student was slightly wounded in a burst of gunshots from a passing car. 6. And only seven black and seven Hispanic students scored high enough to get into the most selective of the schools, Stuyvesant. 7. Applications fell among Hispanic students other than Mexican-Americans, among Asian-Americans and among whites. 8. Applications from blacks and Hispanic students with similar grade point averages and SAT scores were passed on for further review by the admissions committee, the lawsuit alleges. 9. As the number of Hispanic students grows, they, too, are disproportionately being sent into special education, another study found. 10. At Northwestern, however, black students took her to be black, and Hispanic students were told by university administrators of her Hispanic background. |