University of Virginia Affirmative Action complaint is probed

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The federal Office of Civil Rights is investigating a complaint that the University of Virginia discriminates against white applicants to its undergraduate school. The investigation was kicked off after the father of a white male student from New York said his son was denied admission because of discrimination. The high school student applied to U.Va. in the fall of 2003. "If my son had been a girl or a minority with his grades, test scores and extracurricular activities he would have been admitted to the university on his own with no problem," the father wrote in his complaint filed in May of last year. "Were far less qualified students admitted to the university while my son was passed over because of the color of his skin or his gender?" the father wrote. "Many kids with far less qualifications had already been accepted to the university in the name of diversity." he office notified U.Va. President John T. Casteen III in August of last year that it was investigating the complaint, which "alleges that the university's undergraduate admissions policies and procedures discriminate against non-minority male students." U.Va. spokeswoman Carol Wood said that "the Office of Civil Rights is reviewing the university's undergraduate admissions procedure in consultation with our office of general counsel." Wood said race is only one of many factors involved in determining who is admitted to the school. Over the past five years, the freshman class has been about 9 percent black.Last year the Supreme Court ruled that race/ethnicity may be used as a factor amongst many factors in admission decisions [more]
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