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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the TO talk makes me wonder - what's the point of creating a specific class to your standards, whatever those standards are? Just a prestige thing? [/quote]

The fundamental problem is that the United States kidnapped people from Africa, enslaved them, tortured them and did everything we could to wreck their lives for centuries.

But we’re too cheap and nasty to compensate their descendants properly, do anything much to make “the poor side of town” nicer, or even to give kids from the “poor side of town” a 20-point SAT boost when they apply for college.

So, instead of having a simple system to give the descendants of slaves a small affirmative action admissions  boost, we have a crazy, Rube Goldberg holistic admissions system, in the hope it might help a few poor Blacks do a little better on their applications.

If we would stop being a nation of racist crackers, we could build the whole college application process around an electronic post card. [/quote]

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