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[quote=Anonymous]Affirmative Action is racially based (and I also believe gender based for women, at least it was in some form).

Legacy/athlete admissions is NOT racially based, contrary to what some of you want to think. That's why this rant is falling on deaf ears. Trying to throw out phrases like affirmative action for legacies and athletes is not only insulting to the original premise of affirmative action, it also makes you seem childish.

The universities are not using legacy/athlete admissions to deliberately bolster their white student numbers. They use the admissions preferences for quite different reasons (and you ignore that legacy/athlete admissions include people of color these days and their share is only increasing as time goes on).

You really think the admissions committees at the Ivies, bastions of liberalism and progressiveness, are sitting around a table saying, oh, look, we need another 50 white students, quick, let's call the athletic department or the alumni office and see what applicants we can drum up.  :roll:

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