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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is people who live under the delusion that they got where they are, attending elite schools, through meritocracy, rather than privilege, getting slapped in the face with reality.

MOST KIDS for the past 50 years who were "worthy" of T20 schools could not go. They didn't even apply.

Posters here clearly did apply and go. They had savvy parents who encouraged them to apply, could afford the tuition, and made it work.

Now they think, hey my kid is "worthy" but something is in my way. It must be (1) new and different (2) unfair.

No, it's how it's always been. [/quote]

You are resorting to a false equivalency. I can see where your thinking is coming from and it's a corrupted way of thinking. You're not arguing for things to be made more equitable, you're defending the shifting of one perceived privilege to a different perceived privilege. You're effectively justifying today's inequity because things were inequitable in the past. And it's likely because you have a material interest in the current system and resent implications there's something wrong with it. The rich can still easily afford college, the poor get financial aid if they game the system, the middle classes get it harder and harder and people like you only scream and rant "privilege" in their faces while the real privilege, ie the rich, are utterly unaffected.

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