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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But what the poster is saying is what we have observed -- My son's room mate is "Hispanic".  His dad is an investment banker and he attended private schools and was waited on by a house full of servants.  He drives a Lexus.  I don't think that that was actually the target audience for the system of racial admissions preferences.  One of my college roommates grew up on some kind of a ranch in Namibia.  She was "African" -- even though she was white and quite wealthy.  My son's friend is "African-American".  Both her parents are neurosurgeons and her house is literally five times the size of ours.  This feels like cheating to me.  And no one wins in this scenario -- not the kids who don't get accepted, whether white or black, nor the students who are, who aren't really getting exposed to a diverse group of people, unless you consider Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous as a diverse group of people.[/quote]

It sounds like you are assuming the son of the investment banker and the son of neurosurgeons only got in due to racial preference - do you know that they weren't top students anyway?[/quote]

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