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[quote=Anonymous]For those eager  to claim the mantle of victim and complain that your children are deprived of their rightful spot by some other "tip" applicant, you should check out the further research of the same Princeton academic whose work formed the basis of The article OP cites. http://www.princeton.edu/~tje/files/Opportunity%20Cost%20of%20Admission%20Preferences%20Espenshade%20Chung%20June%202005.pdf
[quote]Critics of affirmative action in American higher education often overlook the fact that elite universities give added weight in the admissions process to many different types of student characteristics. In this article, we use micro-simulation analysis to investigate the effect on the profile of admitted stu- dents of eliminating preferences for one or more categories of students. ...  [u]White applicants would benefit very little by removing racial and ethnic prefer- ences; the white acceptance rate would increase by roughly 0.5 percentage points[/u].[/quote]
No one is stealing your spots. If your kid got beat out, it likely was by some other "un-tipped" applicant who was simply more qualified. [/quote]

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