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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since the Supreme Court ruling on admissions, now universities are looking at low to moderate income high achievers from QuestBridge to fill diversity slots. But what about minority kids who are high income? And everyone else? Are we all getting the shaft? My daughter is getting rejection after rejection even though she has high SAT scores and GPA. And I’m sure they chose a low income minority to fill that slot over us. The whole admissions game completely sucks. I’m tired of all these overkill programs leaning toward lower or moderate income. It needs to be a fair shot for all. [/quote]

I think you said the quiet part out loud OP. Down with the poor minorities, up with the privileged whites.[/quote]
OP said down with the poor minorities, up with the privileged (financially) minorities[/quote]

There is a lot of anxiety among some UMC URM families.  
Their URM status was a hook that has gone away. 
Their kids have great grades and their test scores are good enough for Georgetown but they were expecting Yale.
Their parents had similar stats and they got into yale and they were hoping their kids would get the same consideration.  
Except now their kids are UMC and will no longer get the same bump simply by being URM.  
Now they have to be poor.  And even worse, sometimes the poor kids are white.
And suddenly, the preference is unfair.[/quote]

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