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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm very pro Affirmative Action. I was a beneficiary of the programs in the 1980s and 1990s as a URM. Maybe it's that I went to HSP schools, but all of the AA kids around me were stellar students. Sure, some of us went to crap high schools that didn't offer all the great academic opportunities that the rich kids whose parents went to college received. But we were gunners and worked hard. We all had the innate talent and brain power to meet the school's standards in our classes. What I don't get are kids who have one URM parent, don't look like and aren't treated like a URM, live in a middle or UMC white neighborhood and have lots of resources, but they still can't perform. Some of these kids are getting admitted to selective colleges with crap grades and low test scores. My SAT score (only took it once, without studying) might have been in the bottom quartile of the entering class. But that was still a really quite high score, especially given that English was my second language and my mom didn't even graduate from high school. Now I'm seeing kids who call themselves Mike instead of Miguel who are too lazy to bother studying for the SAT even though their parents could easily pay for test prep. They have mediocre grades and don't take the most rigorous courses. Nonetheless, they're being admitted to decent competitive schools. That is just wrong. If I were those kids, I'd enter college "feeling pressure to prove" myself. [/quote]

It seems like you should be more pro Affirmative Action based on socioeconomic status NOT race. It’s not the 80s and 90s anymore and the basis for this program needs to evolve to meet the current needs. [/quote]

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