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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a URM from a first gen and low-income college family. I definitely had to be way better than everyone else to be considered as good as the white kids. If white people weren't so damn racist and didn't assume we aren't as smart and talented as they are (we're often even smarter and more talented) this wouldn't be an issue. I always just laugh to myself when white people underestimate me and I then leave them in the dust. That's what they get for thinking I don't deserve the degrees I earned from top schools.

You know who really needs to practice some self-doubt? White guys who get thrown into the smart people pool just because other people are lazy and don't vet them properly.

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While I agree with the PP that some teachers may have unconscious bias towards URMs and grade harder and assume they will not be as high achieving as whites, it also cannot be denied that the advantage being URM in the college admissions process is an equalizer.  I am not URM and I view it as fair, considering the bump/hook that alumni give kids is a result of systemic racism that allows whites to BE alums in the first place.

At my kid's highly competitive private, the kids getting in early to top 10% schools are 80% URM. They are all qualified. So are the dozens that got rejected. It's just the way it it. Holistic admissions, as has been pointed out, gives weight to a lot of things. But from the DMV there are lots of high stats kids and to differentiate, being URM helps. The numbers don't lie. And it's a process that needs to happen to right systemic wrongs.[/quote]

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