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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not really. If a kid wants to go to college they will be able to go. It may not be their first choice but that is life.

We have much bigger issues in this country than whether Larlo gets into the state flagship her parents think she deserves bc she had x EC and x stats.

This is mostly a UMC class anxiety issue. [/quote]
Agreed. In other countries, if your kid does not have top test scores or is not in the top of the class, [b]they don’t go to college.[/b] Period. Americans are so lucky they live in a country where even an average student can go to college. [/quote]

BS.  They just don't go to the top college.  They do get to go to *a* college.[/quote]
Wrong, they don’t go to “a college”, they go to “no college”. That’s how it works in most other countries. Only the top students go to college. Everyone else chooses either trade school, work or some kind of apprenticeship. Again, we are very lucky in this country. There are so many things we take for granted and college is one of them. [/quote]

I don't know what you are talking about.. I'm from India.   Entering 11th grade, I was one of those kids who everyone thought would get into a top engineering or medical school. Screwed up in 11th and 12th grades (bad company, etc.) and bombed academics.   Didn't get into any engineering or medical school, let alone the good ones.  I did get into a regular college (3-year, arts college), one of the worst in my town.  Went downhill even more.  Graduated with meh grades, started working, picked up new skills, came to the US for a Masters after several years of work, and landed in IT management where I thrived.  My degree was in the sciences and there were many colleges in town that offered degrees in the arts.  These days there are even more such colleges.  There were a few technical colleges that were called polytechnics but had far lower demand relative to arts colleges.

I am also part of the so called upper caste which face huge discrimination in every walk of life - college admissions, jobs, etc..and no, we were not rich.. at all. My dad had to ride a bicycle to work 45 minutes each way. The objective of my state's government was to limit our participation in colleges to our percentage of the population.  My college cost $0 or heavily discounted for people of certain castes (which was about 70% of the the kids), regardless of their family wealth.  Many of them were way richer than we were.  Some also got scholarship money which went towards booze on the day it was paid out.

Conceptually, its the same here.  Get good grades (and a bunch crowd pleasing nonsense ECs) you get a shot at top schools.  If you are a 'certain race(s)' you get priority, need lower academic credentials, get scholarships, etc. in the name of 'holistic admissions'.  If you are not (e.g. Asian) you are not welcome regardless of your financial status.  You go down the list and pick a school that will take you.  Same sh*t,  different country.

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