the effects of this, the demonstrable effects of this minority applicants because their profile in gpa and lsat isn't as good as asians and caucasians. the hispanic applicants and african-american applicants have lower metrics and it's harder for law schools to hand them scholarships or financial assistance if you will. as i said earlier, really better thought of these days is discounting. we have some schools in the circuit, by the way, who don't charge any tuition at all for a substantial number of students. indeed, we have a few schools who sent the students money. they don't charge any tuition. they write checks to the students to support living expenses. only if you do that but it's part of this greater trend. and of course, again last week the news that the bar passage rates in the country, no great surprise have likewise been following. february is not as good of a measure as july. the february rate here in the state with the lowest we have ever experienced. on an important note, that this is not gone unnoticed by her friends and the academy. the number of people in the academy

all these things predicted way better than lsat and gpa. some predictors were negatively correlated with the specter. the higher the lsta below are -- so, there is a huge amount of effort that can be put in for my law firm to begin to think thoughtfully about who is successful in the process and why. you can't build self reflection unfortunately. processthe legal genetically under invests in thinking through lawyer development. tremendous research is out there and i'm happy to go off-line and equate someone with where to begin on that inquiry. >> talking little bit about the role of what the bar exam plays in this process. the correlation between bar passage and lsats and the extent to which we had built-in sort of our own piece of this puzzle that we may need to unravel. i'm not sure i: know exactly where you want me to go with this but i will go with what i know. the lsat is a pretty good predictor of ultimate bar passage. something about six times more effective is your law school grades. your law school grades should be a function of yo

a lot of the critics will say so and so had a sat score of this and gpa of that, so this person shouldbeen admitted. elite colleges admit based on they would run out of spots if they just admitted based on sat and gpa's. host: talk a little bit about how geography might play a role in this. admission policies are different -- guest: this would be another example of a preference by colleges. universitieses and almost always prefer and sometimes have a quota for students from in the state over out-of-state. it is more difficult to get into berkeley or the university of virginia from out-of-state than institutions like harvard like to have students from all over the world. they may look for a student from wyoming and may not naturally get a lot of applicants from wyoming compared to the northeast. so that may be a preference as well. a college might want more male students. many liberal arts colleges are open about the fact that they are not getting mail applicants. women, sobout 60-40 they are giving a preference to mail applicants. -- male applicants. that is permissible. it's always in

. >> if we wanted to we could take students who had only perfect gpas and only perfect board scores andome of the best students imamerica. every year admissions officers are consider morgue than just academics. >> let's be cheer, part of our policy, we take race and ethnicity into account. building a divorce campus. >> the supreme court ruled that race is an acceptable factor in college admissions. >> we want our students to go out and have an impact in multicultural and diverse society. we need to have a diverse student body on the campus. >> reporter: a group called students for fair admissions accusing elite colleges of discriminating against asian-american and white students using illegal caps on enrolling mtd and higher academic standards for admission. in a "washington post" on-ed, the group president, writes racial preferences, punish better qualified individuals and pit americans against one amother. >> i had a 2230 sa st., perfect score on the act, 4.67 gpa i believe. >> michael wang applied to almost every ivy league school. was only accepted to one. >> had i been african-amer

louis university school of medicine despite the fact my pitiful 3.1 gpa was lower than their average of 3.7. now, i wanted to mention a statistic mentioned earlier in the program which is that the majority of harvard is now a minority, and i don't think that's true. i think that's very deceptive. i think you're forgetting about the pocohantas factor, the fact there's a large number of people whiter than winter in alaska posing as minorities, and as a result, it skews the statistics because they know that it can improve their chances of admission, so self-reporting of statistics of a minority is not necessarily the best data to use. >> so what you're saying is that you didn't just check a box. you went full-on tootsie and there's others out there who may not adopt the personification of a particular group. but they are checking the same box in the same way. >> i, you know, i'm an admissions consultant and have so many clients with an african-american great, great grandfather, great, great grandmother was hispanic or something like that, and for very flimsy reasons they call themselves

dripping too much coffee may have a bad effect on your brain the more coffee students drank the lower gpaho didn't drink had a 3.43 and with every additional cup the average gpa -- >> this is ridiculous. itself he ' going drets of a point. >> i'm going to keep on drinking . researchers say there is no exact link as to why this happened that way. >> that was a great study. anyway, we're going to keep on drinking the coffee. thinking of what to name your baby parents. a recent trend shows they have more names to chose from because gender neutral monikers are all the rage. charlotte for girls or jack for boys. now trending names include, quincy, recommend i, winter, ellis, independent go, sasha and ray. i like i think just about all of them. winter and independent go is different i had not heard those, but the other ones i like. >> how many game of thrones baby themes. >> winter. >> i like the name >> oh, yeah? >> i've heard rumors much that's my new granddaughter. he's one month old already. >> happy about our beautiful weather. >> i'm worried about texas, though. we just got the latest upd

what if on the merits if you go by gpa and s.a.t.d fill the entire class at harvard with asian-americans, should they do so? >> first of all there a multifact tomorrow process, nine criteria including grades and essay. i'm not saying grades and territories should be the only thing. but the simple point is as an asian-american, it is harder to get into college or graduate school than any other racial category. in every place where the data is available, it is consistently harder for an asian-american to get in. i used the example earlier of medical schools, admissions where it was 50% easier to get into medical school as an asian-american compared to an african-american. statistical data, there's no action for racism. affirmative action is a systemized racism. it's a racial classification system that changes peoples chance of admission to college or graduate school. and there's no justification for race ichl racism. >> but vijay, you understand the point i'm trying to make from the perspective of the admissions they are seeking to ass

he's an inspiration to these players having only had a 1. 1.6 gpa in high school.e turned things around before going to uva and the nfl. >> it means that anybody around here can do it. >> it's definitely cool to see how they can relate to some of things that i went through, and they're going through, and they're like wow, that's a guy that's, you know not too far in age from me. it's different coming from a guy like me than rather your mom or your dad. >> reporter: that hard work has worked out for moses. he's one of the highest paid right tackles in the nfl. he's entering his 4th year with the burgundy and super bowl. in richmond, diane roberts, wusa9 sports. >>> a new lawsuit accuses president trump of pushing fox news to publish a fake story about a d.c. murder. we'll tell you more. >> first, talk about paying it forward. we're going to introduce you to a multiple lottery winner who shared his good fortune. >> have a good story idea? we want to hear all about it. send always story to newstips@wusa9.com. >>> sometimes people give lottery tickets as gifts, and mor

. >> a student assessment will now be made through standardized testing or high school gpas. the hope is to boost the four-year graduation rate from 19% to 25% by the year 2025. >>> three bay area cities have been named among the best places to live in america. school rankings website had ann arbor, michigan, naperville, illinois, arlington, virginia at the top. sunnyvale came in at 15, berkeley, and san francisco came in 24th with night life and diversity as greatest assets. they looked at graduation rates, fbi crime data, housing and employment to set its rankings. >>> well, accuweather wrapping up a gorgeous day today. no intense heat. it was so nice out there. we're going to do it twice, once again tomorrow as well. doppler 7 showing you the picture. we love this weather where the fog takes its time clearing so that means the heat stays away from us. to the north and east, live doppler 7 over the last hour showing thundershowers. you notice over the past 15 minutes they are weakening and pushing away to the north and east. outside the picture, santa cruz came alive. look,

shows that kids that work in college under 20 hours a week and they have an on-campu job have higher gpas than kids who don't work at all. it's good to work. these conversations are about budgeting. on my website i have a worksheet people with use to sit down and figure out who is paying for what before you leave for school. >> thank you very much. >>> up next on "on the money" a look at the news in the week ahead. and not only millennials are looking for five star hotels, spa treatments or resorts for their next getaway i didn't think protection this thin could work. but the super absorbent core turns liquid to gel. snap! so it's out of sight... ...and out of mind. always discreet. for bladder leaks. >>> here are the stories coming up that may impact your money this week. on monday, we will be getting the consumer credit report that measures consumer debt for june. on tuesday, the national federation of independent businesses releases its monthly survey on the economic optimism of small business owners it also marks 43 years since president richard nixon resigned in the wake of the water

in the last 15 years we've had over 400 gpas in the first ten years of their existence of about 18. so nonprosecution agreements, various forms of settlements for money -- >> host: no admission of guilt? >> guest: most of the time no admission of guilt. and then there is forms a kind of promises to behave better in the future which don't come which are not kept. we get to in a second, why that so inadequate. >> host: the public and what interesting is like any other tool, it can be an appropriate thank yous but in this case may be it was, the public perceives that it's been over use and you can look at it from the defense side. he will claim this is a shakedown. they didn't have the goods on so what are we going to do? ability terrible for stock price and shareholders, bad for morale to which is to some money at this a medical way. as a sort of the defense can take and maybe some of time it was true, maybe none of the timeless truth but there's that started from the public side they want to see trials because they think that this is just, that it's not really, until you see both the

that actually focuses on employment outcomes and actually admits people with lower lsat's and lower gpa's because they know they're more employable on the back end and they run the math. that's interest in where we're at here, i would love to break out of that. >> almost impossible for an individual school to do that because you get killed in the marketplace. >> it's going to be collected. >> in changing the discounting, for example, could be darn near fatal. and debra jones merit from the ohio state university school of law has done some important work trying to tease out some options that might exist for collaborative work and she's gained some attention rightly because of that. >> we had another question here in the middle. >> i know what an l-sat is and a gpa. i don't know the bch category, are you talking briggs meyers test, do any law firm do b-based hiring? >> i was part of applied research company for six years and we helped law if irms utilize that. leapt me stay centered on the schultz zedeck study. they used a shah right of industry gold standards. they used hogan products, an

emergency dispatc dispatcher that received victim text messages told the to call 911 to find gpa location on cellphone. >> snap chat post leads this case to cam don't county. police arrested mason mallen and clemington home saturday after he sexually assaulted a woman and posted images of her on his snap chat a friend of the victim saw her in the post and called police. mallen is held in camden coun county jail. >> local lawmakers wants quicker action from the feds when it comes to septa train accidents. we got a look at the platform at the 69 street station where a septa crash happened on tuesday. a train plowed into the back of a parked train. 33 women were hurt. theres with as i train accident in darby in february. congressman bob brady and mayor tom mc cozy are outraged at the national transportation safety board investigation. brady called for congressional hearing. cbs3 relayed the concerns to the ntsb and spokesman said investigators are methodical and thorough and that if an immediate safety problem is identified the agency will issue an emergency alert. the sole winner of 758 mil

. >> a student assessment will now be made through standardized testing or high school gpas.e is to boost the four-year graduation rate from 19% to 25% by the year 2025. >>> three bay area cities have been named among the best places to live in america. school rankings website had ann arbor, michigan, naperville, illinois, arlington, virginia at the top. sunnyvale came in at 15, berkeley, and san francisco came in 24th with night life and diversity as greatest assets. theyooke l at graduation rates, fbi crime data, hsing and employment to set its rankings. >>> well, accuweather wrapping up a gorgeous day today. no intense heat. it was so nice out there. we're going to do it twice, once again tomorrow as well. doppler 7 showing you the picture. we love this weather where the fog takes its time clearing so that means the heat stays away from us. to the north and east, live doppler 7 over the last hour showing thundershowers. you notice over the past 15 minutes they are weakening and pushing away to the north and east. outside the picture, santa cruz came alive. look, folks stil

she has gained some attention because of that. >> another question here in the middle. >> it's not a gpa, but are you talking briggs and myers test? does anyone that you know of use be based hiring? >> i was actually part of an applied research company and we helped law firms utilize that. let me stay centered on the study. they used a variety of instruments, they used hogan products and so they used assessments like the developmental survey instrument and they looked for the positive attributes and the negative attributes for on-the-job performance. they been validated over a long period of time and many different professional settings. larry richards is somebody that's in the law firm space, a psychologist that has a big practice built up around the hogan products and he probably has tens of thousands of law firm partners, especially law firm leaders. there are folks out there that are using them. there's also other tests that were in the initial judgment, the biographical inventories which are kind of like a moneyball type instrument, all of these things predicted way better. some of

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grader applying to a public high school in san francisco i was required to score higher and get a higher gpabecause i was chinese. >> tucker: it's universal, all kids know it you should be judged for what you do the choices you make and not be punished for the choices other people made, of course. lee, god speed, we're rooting for you. come back any time. >> thank you so much, >> tucker: that's it for us tonight, you can come back tomorrow at 8:00 to the show that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. a >> the change you voted for is happening every single day. we believe in god, we believe in family, we believe in country. we didn't win because of russia was we won because of you. heather: it is friday, august 4th and donald trump rallying the crowd in west virginia. >> this as robert mueller gets ready to have a grand jury in the russia probe. "fox and friends" first starts now. heather: good morning, you are watching "fox and friends" first, good morning to you. peter: thank you for starting the day with us. donald trump going beyond party lines rallying the mas

including, not maintaining a 3.0 senior year gpa. getting a d or f, in a class.bmitting test scores, and transcripts. >> there is no student who has been admitted and has met all the requirements that is not being accommodated this fall. >> thomas parham, vice chancellor in charge of admissions says the university took a harder line this year enforcing its deadlines. he admits the high demand for spots and the income offing class was likely a factor. uc-irvine ranked number nine on the u.s. news and world report list of top public schools, received a record 104,000 admission applications this year. the incoming class is about 800 students larger than it expected. >> certainly want to be able to examine, how the numbers played out. whether or not we could have been more forthcoming in our, in our communications. admissions offers. parham, encouraged those revoked erroneously to appeal. less than 100 reinstated so far. rochet hopes she will soon join them. >> it is just an unfortunate situation to be in. and like no one deep serves that. not even my greatest enemie

and 4.67 gpa, i believe. >> reporter: michael wang applied to almost every ivy league school but wase. >> had i been african-american or latino i might have gone to more schools. i'm not sure myself. >> reporter: in 2015 federal civil rights investigators reported no evidence that princeton university used separate admissions processes, reviews or tracks by race. according to documents this spring admissions officers did discuss applicants in racial terms. no cultural flavor, reads one review of an hispanic applicant. very few americans with verbal scores like this. >> can you guarantee asian american and white applicants aren't held to a higher standard? >> i canuarant all our students are held to an equal standard. it is if you have to get into princeton. it is tough to get into other ivy colleges. but everybody gets a fair shake. >> reporter: harvard stands by its policy to consider race to enroll a diverse class of students. in a statement to cbs news harvard's process considers each applicant as a whole person. we review factors with standards established by the u.s. supreme cou

grader applying to a public high school in san francisco i was required to score higher and get a higher gpai was chinese. >> tucker: it's universal, all kids know it you should be judged for what you do the choices you make and not be punished for the choices other people made, of course. lee, god speed, we're rooting for you. come back any time. >> thank you so much, >> tucker: that's it for us tonight, you can come back tomorrow at 8:00 to the show that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. aioioion of this show is at 11:00. "the five" right now. ♪ >> dana: i'm dana perino along with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, jesse watters is back. this is "the five" ." president trump fired up a crowd in west virginia tonight after news broke special counsel robert mueller impaneled a grand jury, it's part of his investigation into whether the trump team coordinated with russia to influence our electio election. here he was with response this evening. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's jus

nobody is going to be a black woman, trust me, i know this, with the bad sat score or bad gpa and geto north carolina chapel hill. >> matt: north carolina is not discriminating against anybody, that's absurd. >> kat: this has been decided in the supreme court. >> eboni: we look at it. when are we going to stop? >> matt: i think it needs to go back to the court again. >> eboni: it will come over and over, and we have to revisit it and make sure it's still needed. >> dom: american colleges are suspect. i think they are suspect in this issue. jeff sessions does too. >> kat: we will have to wait and see. next up, osama bin laden's son seeks revenge, wants to wreak havoc on the west. check us out on social media. we are at fncspecialists. it was always a dream of mine to become a professional soccer player, but i never imagined that i'd be playing in kansas city. when i was first elected mayor, they would talk about kansas city, kansas like... i can't wait to get out of here. through the years we lost over 30,000 people. we turned that obstacle into an opportunity. the speedway was the cat

. >> perfect score, 4.67 gpa. r everything to get into harvard. >> multiple speech, debate award. piano competitions. >> reporter: in 2013, the california high school student was rejected by his dream school even as he says students with lower grades got in. >> asian-americans are set to a higher bar compared to applicants. had i been african-american, latino i may have gone to more schools, not sure myself. >> reporter: the supreme court ruled repeatedly, race can be a factor in college admissions. on the website. harvard talks proudly of considering the whole person in its decisions. but asian students like wang allege that harvard keeps them out with what amounts to illegal cap on asian enrollment and preference for other racial minorities according to a lawsuit filed in 2015 by an advocacy group, students for fair admissions. more than 60 asian-american associations joined, this week the trump administration confirmed it is investigating. saying the department of jufs tis is commi protecting all americans. >> the college is not releasing the data how exactly they're using race

the college dropped its initial plan that would require students to maintain a minimum 2.0 gpa to maintain tuition. >>> a 1,000-pound pumpkin grown by a 15-year-old boy. henry swenson learned about this plant along the way. >> you only want one pumpkin on one plant to get all the energy to go to that one pumpkin. >> this is in suburban massachusetts. swenson waters it every day. he always makes sure to protect it from sunburn. but the teen owes much of his finesse to his 71-year-old mentor woody lancaster right here. he used to raise giant pumpkins with one of his children until his son became too interested in girls. [ laughter ] >> now lancaster calls swenson his new pumpkin son. [ laughter ] >> he is 15. so he might get distracted soon. >> yeah. i believe so. [ laughter ] >> nice girl, no more pumpkin growing. >> that's a big pumpkin. >> you can turn it into a carriage and then now -- cinderella story. >> go out on a date on a friday night in a pumpkin carriage. >>> if you are driving down the freeway in your pumpkin carriage this more -- >> look out! a problem for people along highway

. >> student assessments will now be made through standardized testing or high school gpa. to boost the four-year graduation rate from just 19% to 25% by the year 2025. >>> now we're hearing from the lobstermen who hauled in the catch of their lives this week. a real national treasure. abc7 news reporter tom llamas explains. >> reporter: in acadia national park in maine, there are majestic sights. but two lobstermen recently saw something they couldn't believe. in the open water, just yards from their boat, a bald eagle struggling to stay afloat. >> i've never experienced anything like it. i've been on the water sns i was a little kid with my fact and my grandfather, and i've never seen nothing like it before. >> he saw something floating in the water, flopping pulled up next to it. turns out to be an american bald eagle. >> the two men jumped into action, turning a piece of wood into a tiny lifeboat. the eagle hopped on, and the lobstermen pulled it in. >> he climbed right up onto the board. i was holding onto the board, and he was looking at me. i was looking at him. figu

you can achieve great things without a wonderful gpa. [ laughter ] but what happens is he takes the -- that's his only class on religion that he takes at morehouse and it's taught by a professor named george kelsey. i had the privilege of meeting george kelsey. he was a wonderful, well-educated person who i could see how a young martin would see him as a role model. because, from his own father, he gets this kind of religion that is kind of what i would call the "old-time religion." it's a lot of emotion but not too much emphasis on theology and reason and things like that. so from george kelsey, what he gets is that you have to get behind the myths of the bible. a lot of the stories, you have to understand what is their deeper meaning. george kelsey is a well-educated person who had studied the bible, understood a lot of the historical context performing what we would call a historical criticism of the bible. seeing it as a historical document. something that you could go back and question why did they write this the way that they did? what you find from that is that here he is doing

the college dropped the initial plans to require students to maintain a 2.0 gpa to maintain a free tuition. what was the problem with that to keep the free city program? >> the goal was accessibilities. i think the number one goal is it accessibility. >> reporter: where does accountability fall in that? >> accountability is always -- is built into our instructional programs. >> reporter: it's a work in progress, the chancellor says this semester will be a learning experience for administration, as well. policy changes could be in store once they have a better feel for how it works out. until then, though, students say the benefits of the program are worth the wait. >> with free college it will help for people to get better degrees and, you know, more education to try to get better jobs and i think city college is doing that. >> reporter: city college also hopes that this program is a way to turn a corner and put past financial mismanagement and accreditation crises in the past. it's important to note that city college benefits from free city also. not just the students. with each additiona

and -- everybody calls it uncorroborated and unverified, that's not the way fusion gpa views it. richard ben-veniste is a famous political figure especially investigations of complicated sandals, he was a water gate investigator, when simpson came out of that interview, his lawyer quoted richard ben-veniste in calling the dossier a road map for the investigation. they want the congressional committees and the fbi and all of these other professional investigations, they want all those investors to follow the dossier, check it out. they want the dossier to be the basis of other people's investigations. they are volunteering it. check it out. they stay they stand by their work. they say they are proud of their work. by their work they mean the dossier. and even though the white house and people from the trump campaign and the trump administration keep denouncing it as this dodgy dossier and reporters routinely talk about it as unverified and uncorroborated, that's less and less true all the time. it was made public by buzz feed. by february we had the first substantive reports that

reese and his dad come from scott's valley, he's a computer science major with a 4.66 gpa which may have search for a room 102. his roommates were not there yet. the father and son, meantime, about to say farewell. >> i remember the first time he got a broken lip from falling over. yeah. >> you're going to be all right. >> i know. i know. >> reporter: it will get easier after tonight. at uc berkeley, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> that is a long walk back for the parents. >>> freshmen not the only newbies this week at uc berkeley. they're welcoming 82% transfer students, most from community colleges. >>> history made today at west point. 20-year-old simone ascii the serve as the first black one to lead west point's corps of cadets. she assumes duties this week. brigadier general steve gillen said askew exemplifies the values of duty, honor and country. >>> get the latest news anytime with the abc 7 news app and push alerts, to be the first to know about breaking news where you live. >>> thank you for joining us at abc 7 news at 4:00. >>> breaking news in lake county, where there's been a

. >> i graduated high school with a gpa of 3.5.- it was that life, i guess, maybe is what you'd say. growing up i got looked at different because my whole family is white and i'm not. i got treated different by my sister's dad because i am half black, they're all white, i wasn't really his kid. so i just dealt with that. i used to get teased at school. i cried. i cried a lot. >> hey. >> hi. >> how you doing? >> good. >> that's good. you're looking good. >> thank you. i'm tired. i slept all day today. >> what'd you do that for? >> i'm tired. >> you're going to be out of here pretty soon. you need to get your sleep schedule the right way. >> she came in here, was having a lot of issues with stuff, just a lot with family and everybody just not getting along. >> i'm hoping to get out on monday. >> well, that would be cool. i have to work monday, though. >> if you would ask her to get something out of your purse, she would like take something out without even noticing. she wouldn't notice. it would be in her pocket later. >> she has don

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with lower grades and test scores and put in situations where they're less likely to graduate, their gpas are lower. for 20 years we've done more than two dozen studies of racial admissions policies, and my concern is more about the black and hispanic students who will incur greater debt and be less likely to graduate as a result of these policies and asian students who also are kept out because of them. >> brenda, how do you see it? >> this move by the department of justice to assemble a team that intends to investigate and challenge race-based admissions simply perpetuates this myth that such policies are -- constitute i mpermissible race-based discrimination, and that's simply not true. i believe that, to the contrary, the supreme court just as recently as june of last year clearly decided that such admissions policies are constitutional. and this action represents the next step in what we believe to be an aggressive and strategic campaign to roll back the civil rights protections of a number of historically disadvantaged students, including trans youth, women and girls, and of course

i can tell you what we see is we have hired gpas with her students who are involved in this, fewer suspensionser attendance. i can also tell you when you look at disproportionality and we all know what that is about come we seen a 50% decrease in some of those data points rep disproportionality for our students who are under certain whether they are free and reduced lunch, whether their minority students. another big highlight for us was president obama and his administration cited that we were the district to follow and a transgender policy. we had no idea that was coming. you know what happens after they posted it, right? the policy been a place for a while and they, there became an upper interdistrict. i had a wonderful board. we talk about kids and every kid, our job is to educate kids and the policy was designed to ensure a safe environment for all kids. we had reached discussions but i can tell you that the policy was not written and isolation of just a district. we took this out to her committee leaders, our parents and that he did so wasn't just a district decision to it was a communit