Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"One thing I’ve heard is that it’s hard for admission officers to “unsee” bad scores. They may love a Black applicant with good grades and recs, but when they see the 1000 on the SAT, it’s just really hard to forget it. Then, they end up with fewer Black kids than they had desired in the class overall. If they never see the score at all, it’s a lot easier to admit the student."
I'm a first-gen Latino from a low-income neighborhood. I went to HSYP for college and top grad schools.
No Black or Brown kid is getting into a top school with a 1000. Maybe a 1300 if they've taken a very rigorous course load and done extraordinarily well. My own kid who is obviously also Latino but not first-gen and not low-income didn't get in even though they have whatever benefit legacy might bestow through me.
Your score has to meet their minimum threshold no matter how poor and brown you may be.
But, you have to agree: all the white Latinos need to acknowledge their unearned white privilege in America, particularly compared to their brown and Afro-Latino compatriots. They really should step aside to make way for those who have truly been oppressed in this country.
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