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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish they concentrated on income of the family rather than race, this way they could help poor students of all races.  And yes, this would enable them to increase URM participation while not excluding poor Asian and White candidates.

However - I am a-ok with this too.  Good for Pfizer.

- Asian-American.[/quote]

So is it OK for a POC from a rich family in Potomac MD that attended Sidwell and go on Princeton to apply while a poor white kid who lives in Annandale can't apply?
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Sadly with some of these programs, that may be the end result. A poor POC student may have had a mediocre basic education and not have the skills to qualify for this, and that's assuming they even have the will to apply, and think they might get it. The POC from a well-off family is more likely to apply, and more likely to succeed.

I used to give motivational lectures at high schools in low-income areas (and which happened to have plenty of whites too -- I don't know why people think white poverty is nonexistent) and teachers told me kids needed people like me to just motivate them... they hear too much in their life how they won't amount to anything and don't dream big because of it.[/quote]

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