Sentences with phrase «black applicants»

A better educated black applicant would pass the exam as the same rate as his white, suburban counterpart.

► «Armed with new data showing black applicants suffer a 35 % lower chance of having a grant proposal funded than their white counterparts, NIH officials are gearing up to test whether reviewers in its study sections give lower scores to proposals from African - American applicants,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Thursday.

For black applicants, fighting fires has got to be a hell of alot better than dodging IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Last month, a federal monitor began overseeing the FDNY after a federal judge found the department guilty of a forty year pattern and practice of discrimination against black applicants.

After controlling for the applicant's educational background, country of origin, training, previous research awards, publication record, and employer characteristics, we find that black applicants remain 10 percentage points less likely than whites to be awarded NIH research funding.

The schools also attract black applicants to an unusual degree, not only relative to New York City but also relative to the traditional public schools from which they draw.

Accordingly, under a key 1982 decision in Connecticut v. Teal, employers could not administer various educational and achievement tests that had strong predictive value within both white and black populations to rate job candidates across races — or indeed within the group of black applicants.

Teacher Diversity Efforts in Boston Michelle Healy Boston Public Schools identifies and offers «letters of reasonable assurance» of future employment to promising black applicants and students about to graduate from a teachers college.

After controlling for other factors, Faber found black applicants were 2.8 times more likely to be denied loans than white applicants, while Latino applicants were twice as likely to be denied.

Among black applicants, conventional loan applications were denied 22.4 percent of the time in 2015, down from 30.5 percent in 2010.

The analysis - independently reviewed and confirmed by The Associated Press - showed black applicants were turned away at significantly higher rates than whites in 48 cities, Latinos in 25, Asians in nine and Native Americans in three.

But for black applicants, even after accounting for the large number of non-U.S. citizens within that group, a 10 - percentage - point gap remained because their proposals were more likely to be unscored or receive a low score.

According to the suit, more than 41,000 Latinx and black applicants were denied jobs based on «overly broad» screening by the retailer.

This was true whether a black applicant wanted to buy a house, refinance an existing loan or take out a home equity line of credit.

I've learned anecdotally that black applicants, by and large, don't prep for the written exam and / or the physical test.

These recommendations, laid out in a draft report to the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director, are aimed at correcting what the working group calls a «disturbing discrepancy»: Black applicants are less likely to win independent investigator grants than whites.

Only one was drawn from the experimental pool, meaning it might or might not include a name suggesting a black applicant or a woman.

The black applicant should have the advantage, Taylor reasons, given that he outperformed expectations.»

In 1992, 63 black applicants to law school had LSAT scores above 165.

The article further presents the rather radical view that applicants» LSAT scores should only be compared intra-racially: «[S] uppose a black student scores higher than his peer average while a white student scores below his [but better than the black applicant].

Black applicants were denied for mortgages in Denver more than twice as often than white home - loan seekers last year, according to a Zillow analysis of the most recent federal mortgage data.

Conventional loan applications from black applicants were rejected 13.3 percent of the time in 2015, compared with 5.7 percent for white applicants.