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Another PP here  - who is AA.

As an AA, I would not say that at all.  But if you look at other threads on this forum that talks about Asian admissions, many Whites will often say that (or something about Asians being over prepped robots).  Just do a search.  [b]Bottom line is that many Whites want a more holistic approach when competing against Asians BUT want a "stats" approach when it comes to URM. In other words, they want to use whatever admission approach that benefits them the most at that particular time.[/b] [/quote]

+A MILLION. This breakdown is completely accurate and exposes the true ugliness in the people posting disparaging, thinly-veiled white supremacist comments. I'm very proud of this young lady.

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+a million +1.  [/quote]

It's a bit disingenuous to portray white people as the only ones who are scrambling for any advantage that they can find to gain an advantage for their child's admission to elite colleges. The reality is that EVERYBODY is doing this including AAs. The only difference that I can glean from the comments on this thread is that AAs seem to be in denial that their kids benefit from relaxed admissions standards when even the colleges themselves admit this as fact. And before I need to hear again about athletes, legacies, development, etc kids getting the same benefit.....well of course they do.  Everybody gets that.

The group I have the most sympathy for are asian americans.  How quickly everybody is to buy into the racial stereotype that asians are one-dimensional nerds that add nothing of value to college campuses. When you eliminate race as a factor in admissions as does the University of California system, you see that asians represent 40-50% of the student body (depending on the campus) whist only making up 12% of the state's population.  So presumably the university saw value in these asian applicants beyond academics or am I missing something?[/quote]

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