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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Entirely predictable. Affirmative action has failed miserably and may well be contributing to persistent racial stereotypes. Affirmative action has led to a constellation of "diverse" campuses at which the black and Latino students are [b]BY DESIGN less qualified[/b] than the white and Asian students on campus.

The long journey to a truly color blind society cannot even begin until we end legally sanctioned discrimination by race. I'm all for helping kids from lower SES backgrounds, but the children of black lawyers and doctors who were educated in elite private schools should NOT be given preference over the first generation college applicant from a family of white coal miners in West Virginia. Race is NOT a reliable proxy for low SES.  [/quote]

So, so untrue. You've been told many, many times before that at the very top universities, after the first cut of applicants is made, EVERYBODY in the second round is pretty much EQUALLY qualified and affirmative action at the most provides one more thumb on the scale among EQUALLY qualified applicants.

But what makes me think you'll understand this now, when you've been told so many times before? I think you're the same poster I didn't have time for on the other thread. So I'll stop there.

Signed, white Ivy mom of Ivy kid who (unlike you) has seen this process play out multiple times and actually understands how it works[/quote]

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-painful-truth-about-affirmative-action/263122/
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http://www.law.du.edu/documents/denver-university-law-review/v88-4/Sander%20Final_ToPrinter_917.pdf[/quote]Two articles from authors of differing political viewpoints.  Though I tend to agree with the Denver law link, I welcome differing opinions.[/quote]

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