| 1. The
purpose of colleges and universities is to educate students in academic subjects and areas
they will use to live fruitful lives. |
Agree
Disagree |
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| 2. Generally,
smarter and harder working, interested people make better students. |
Agree
Disagree |
|
| 3. Generally,
better educated students perform better on their jobs. |
Agree
Disagree |
|
| 4. I want to
work with well-qualified people so I can do my best. |
Agree
Disagree |
|
| 5. When people
are educated they generally understand how to do their jobs, live productive lives, and
answer surveys more intelligently. |
Agree
Disagree |
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| 6. Select the
single most important qualification for college admission. |
Recent grades & test scores
Athletic skills
Race
Ethnicity
Personal hardships |
|
| 7. Do you choose
your doctor based upon race, ethnicity, medical skills, or personal hardships? |
Race
Ethnicity
Medical skills
Personal hardships |
|
| 8. Should
professional baseball, football and basketball teams select players based primarily upon
playing skills, race, ethnicity or personal hardships? |
Playing skills
Race
Ethnicity
Personal hardships |
|
| 9. Should
colleges and universities use academic potential based upon previous grades and related
aspects, or race, ethnicity, and personal hardships to select students? |
Academic potential based upon previous grades & related aspects
Race, ethnicity, personal hardships |
|
| 10. When you go
grocery shopping, do you select foods that taste bad, look spoiled, are over-priced, or
are poisonous? |
Taste bad
Look spoiled
Are over-priced
Are poisonous
None of the above |
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| 11. What do you
think should be the three most important qualifications to get into a college or
university? |
1.
2.
3. |
|
| 12. If you
personally aren't very good at the three qualifications you listed in the previous
question, should you be admitted to any school you select anyway? |
Yes
No
Why? |
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| 13. Why are
minorities at the University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley and
elsewhere afraid to stand on their academic records alone and continue to expect extra
admission points for being members of a minority group? |
They know they are not able to meet the academic standards needed using only
their high school grades & college entrance exams
If they can get
something for free, they take it
Our
culture has conditioned them expect special treatment
Other: |
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| 14. I know
not what others may do, but as for me, I will earn my progress, not take handouts. |
Agree
Disagree |
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| 15. I am: |
Female
Male |
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| 16. My age group
is: |
Under 20
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70
& older |