This is one of the sailing of affirmative action
similar thing was tried in America where they made it easier for African Americans to enter university but they weren’t up to it so had very high dropout numbers
Mismatching is the term given to the supposed negative effect that affirmative action has when it places a student into a college that is too difficult for them. For example, in the absence of affirmative action, a student will be admitted to a college that matches their academic ability and has a good chance of graduating. However, according to the mismatching hypothesis, affirmative action often places a student into a college that is too difficult, and this increases the student's chance of dropping out of the college or of their desired major. Thus, affirmative action hurts its intended beneficiaries, because it increases their dropout rates.
[138][139][18][137][140] Mismatching has also been cited as a contributing factor in lowered pursuit and completion of STEM degrees among certain populations.
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Evidence in support of the mismatching theory was presented by
Gail Heriot, a professor of law at the
University of San Diego and a member of the
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in a 24 August 2007 article published in
The Wall Street Journal.
Richard Sander concluded that there were 7.9% fewer black attorneys than there would have been if there had been no affirmative action.
[143] The article also states that because of mismatching, blacks are more likely to drop out of law school and fail bar exams.
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Sander's paper on mismatching has been criticized by several law professors, including
Ian Ayres and Richard Brooks from Yale who argue that eliminating affirmative action would actually reduce the number of black lawyers by 12.7%.
[145] A 2008 study by
Jesse Rothstein and Albert H. Yoon confirmed Sander's mismatch findings, but also found that eliminating affirmative action would "lead to a 63 percent decline in black matriculants at all law schools and a 90 percent decline at elite law schools".
[146] These high numbers predictions were doubted in a review of previous studies by
Peter Arcidiacono and Michael Lovenheim. Their 2016 article found a strong indication that affirmative action results in a mismatch effect. They argued that the attendance by some African-American students to less-selective schools would significantly improve the low first attempt rate at passing the
state bar, but they cautioned that such improvements could be outweighed by decreases in law school attendance.
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A 2011 study proposed that mismatch can only occur when a selective school possesses private information that, had this information been disclosed, would have changed the student's choice of school. The study found that this is in fact the case for
Duke University, and that this information predicts the student's academic performance after beginning college.
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A 2016 study on affirmative action in India finds no evidence for the mismatching hypothesis.
[149] In India 90% IIT-Roorkee dropouts are members of a
backward caste.
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