Not exact matches
It said an internal review of its lending patterns
found that, after taking into account creditworthiness, its black and Latino
applicants were no more likely to be denied loans than
white applicants.
The crackdown will involve hiring private firms to track ads for housing and
find out if the outcome is the same whether the
applicant is
white, African - American, from another ethnic group, has a disability or applies under Section 8.
Putting grades aside, The Guardian
found that a little more than a quarter of
white applicants earned admittance to the University of Oxford; compare that to 17.2 % for ethnic minorities.
After the Institutes reviewed a 2011 analysis that
found African Americans significantly less likely than
white applicants to win NIH research grants, it pushed for a deeper look.
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.
A different
finding emerged in 1996 in Hopwood v. Texas, where several
white applicants to University of Texas School of Law were successful in
finding discrimination when they were denied admission despite having superior LSAT and GPA scores than other candidates.
The court below
found — and petitioner does not deny — that
white applicants could not compete for the 16 places reserved solely for the special admissions program.
A 2003 study in California
found that temporary agencies preferred
white applicants three to one over African American
applicants.
Some job
applicants find white space scary.