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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what's coming next:

"The University of Virginia, for example, announced a plan this month to target 40 high schools in eight regions of the state that had little history of sending applicants."

New York Times article, 6/30

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This is good, as long as they select the top students from these under represented schools instead of using race as a determining factor. [/quote]

[b]Because we know nothing statistically about who lives in various geographies… zip codes will soon be quotas too.[/b][/quote]

Surely you don’t believe this. UVA knows the demographic makeup of every zip code in the state. [/quote]

My zip code has affordable housing/projects and multi-million home/condos.  My kids school was 20% Farms.  So how do they know which kid they are getting ?[/quote]

Seriously? They have your address. The school can figure everything out about your family with a six second google search.[/quote]

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