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I am agreeing with you that elite schools USE soft quotas against asians. my point was  more of a question as to why do people always complain about asian so-called 'over-representation' but never jewish 'over-representation'? Since the latter is never said, shouldn't the argument of over-representation not be used across the board? [/quote]

Why do people never complain about upper-middle-class over-representation or children-of-professionals over-representation or children-of-legacies over-representation?[/quote]

I believe a lot of people are anti-legacy. However, it is difficult to bring a legal case against this (as well as SES). It is easier to bring a legal case on the basis of race due to the equal protection clause.

I have been for SES-based affirmative action since day one. Schools also need to do a much better job reaching out to poor students in poor areas at a MUCH younger age so that they get on the right 'track'. It doesn't help having elite school counselors doing 'outreach' in your poor nabe or poor school when you are in 11th grade. That's too late. [/quote]

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