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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously another sign of reverse discremination. 
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I am so sick of this type of comment everytime anything good happens to a black person.  Most ivy league schools have only 5% balck students -- foreign or domestic.  Do you really think none of them are qualified? They are not taking the place of your special white kid.  Get over it.   For these schools about 30 percent are legacies, white athletes in white sports like lacrosse and rowing, and worse "development cases" like Jared Kushner, i.e. mega rich kids whose parents are not alumni but pledge millions. Its a measure of how racist our society is that people feel free to say this young woman is not qualified, but nothing is said about huge number of "less qualified" white people admitted.  It's sickening.

signed -- grandmother of black ivy student with high grades, 34 ACT, and amazing ECs that most white kids can't come near -- including international recognition.

And don't tell me that its becusae of affirmative action that people will think he's not qualified to be where he is... its not affirmative action,  Its racism pure and simple.[/quote]

I would point out that it isn't helpful to the conversation to talk about "white sports" and ECs that "white kids can't come near." If someone were to replace white with black I'm sure you would find these statements to be distasteful.

I am a believer in affirmative action because it's the best way to even the playing field but I don't think you understand what affirmative action is. Evening the playing field effectively means lowering standards for historically under-represented groups of applicants. Again, I think that's appropriate in light of the socioeconomic disadvantages many under-represented groups face. So of course the average admitted students from these groups will have lower credentials than the average student overall. That doesn't mean that your grandson necessarily benefited from affirmative action....he may very well have not.

When California adopted Prop 209 making admissions race blind, the number of admitted AA and latino students dropped by half. This obviously reduced the diversity of the student body and the Cal syste has made great strides on fixing that problem but that experience highlights what admissions would look like without affirmative action.[/quote]

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