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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Millionth time:

Colleges seeking racial balance in admissions is not affirmative action.

That’s not why they do it. Read the above sentence many times and get it through your thick skulls.

They do it so they can build the class they want more readily. You don’t have to take my word for it call any college admissions office and talk to them about it. And yes someone there will talk to you. But you won’t do that because it will conflict with the narrative you’ve already committed to.

You are free to debate the efficacy and appropriateness of affirmative action but that discussion has nothing to do with college admissions. Nothing.[/quote]

Abbott Lowell was also very concerned about what you call "racial balance" in admissions: "The anti-Semitic feeling among the students is increasing, and it grows in proportion to the increase in the number of Jews. If their number should become 40% of the student body, the race feeling would become intense."

You can call it what you want to make yourself feel better. It's just racism, though.[/quote]

No, you idiot,  you miss PPs point entirely.

And you also did not do as suggested : call a college admissions office and ask them why.

If there are nearly no people of a certain race at a college, it is nearly impossible to get those people to apply.  If there aren't any AA kids, they can't get AA kids.  It's self fulfilling.

Here's the test, try answering this: assuming you are not AA, would you send your kid to a HBC, even though there are many great ones?  No, you wouldn't, because your kid would feel very out of place.

THAT'S why colleges seek a representative balance.  That's it.  And you just proved it is valid with your answer.

It's not affirmative action, it's not reparations, it's not to right past injustices (even if it should be). It's so those colleges can get the kids THEY WANT at the college THEY RUN.

And you don't want them to be able to do that.[/quote]

[quote]If there are nearly no people of a certain race at a college, it is nearly impossible to get those people to apply. If there aren't any AA kids, they can't get AA kids. It's self fulfilling. [/quote]

This would have been a valid argument 25 years ago.[/quote]

So you would send your kid to Howard?  Or Spelman?[/quote]

Is Howard or Spelman T20?[/quote]

So I will take that as a "NO".

And also now know you only care if top 20 schools have these policies.[/quote]

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