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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear ya!! Try telling that to a college admissions board.

It was very frustrating when the black kids (with same privileges and upbringing) were able to get into colleges with only a 3.0 grade pt average and average SATs while those of us with 4.0+ did not.
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But guess what?  Those same black kids and their families didn't have the same opportunities you, your mother, your father, your grandparents and great grandparents did.  Keep in mind, slavery is not so far removed from this world we live in... it wasn't THAT long ago.  And to prove its long lasting effects, take a look at the AA culture as a whole.  Its not pretty, and let me tell you, the roots of it all are in slavery.  If you think the playing field is level or even if you think it should be by now, you are not only sadly mistaken, but you are ignorant.  But that's pretty obvious by your post.

-Signed, one of those black students who got into a great college with a 3.0 and average SAT's and is now VERY successful because of it. 
Sorry if I bumped you. Actually, no I'm not.[/quote]

PP. please tell me what very successful to you means.  Reason I ask is that I did not get into a particular college while a black classmate did under affirmative action.  I went to another school and found out it was the best school for me and I am now very successful as well. Actually probably more successful than if I attended the first college which had a different academic emphasis.   Just want to make sure I didn't miss anything by missing out to an affirmative action student[/quote]

How do you KNOW that your classmate was admitted because of "affirmative action?" Or did you just assume?  Did you have access to that person's app file?  Did you sit in on her interview?  She got in and you did not - why can't it stop there?   Why can't you accept the fact that, this one time, a AA student was more "qualified" based on what that school was looking for at the time?

I had a White friend like you - my college roomie.  We applied to the same grad program - we had the same major and similar GPA's.  I got in and she did not. She told eveyone who would listen that I benefitted from Affirmative Action and that was the only reason that I got a spot - she never said it to me though.  Well I came to find out that my interview was MUCH stronger, that my reccs were stronger in that the Chair of my undergrad department (who was world renowed) wrote one my my letters and my undergrad research was stronger.  So I was smart enough to mitigate any inherent disadvantages I had by taking advantage of the opportunities I did have.  My roomie assumed that because she was White- the spot was hers. [/quote]

I know that my classmate was admitted because of affirmative action because she told me and the college told her.  She was heavily recruited by the college because they needed black students to meet affirmative action goals for research programs they were doing for the government.  As I said, I attended another college, which was actually a better fit for me.  And I am doing just fine.  I always wondered if the people who got into particular colleges because of affirmative action programs did well after they graduated from the school.  Not sure why you are in such a snit.   [/quote]

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