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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people forget that racial minorities are a small portion of the American population. When you get to the college campus that your child has been accepted to in the fall you'll notice this:

Most seats go to:
Upper Middle Class/Wealthy Donors or athletic students 
Well connected children of Alum (politics or some other hook)
International students who can afford full price tuition
Middle Class White Students (from flyover students--Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma)
LGB studentsEven Gen 
Under-represented minorities of color[/quote]

This is kind of true, and kind of absurd.  First, you are 100% right that schools give the most preferential treatment to recruited athletic students (who tend to be white and wealthy), wealthy donors and legacy students, and full-pay kids generally.

Second, it's nutty to suggest that kids get an admissions boost because they are LGBTQ.  This is such a weird bigoted idea that keeps getting bandied about (and I'm pretty sure you are the DCUM poster who keeps suggesting this).  Gen Z has a self-identified LGBTQ of over 20%, so I assume it's even younger for the college set.  You are just unfamiliar and obviously deeply uncomfortable with that, in suggesting that it's a plus (all of which has weird vibes of the "they are predators trying to convert my straight kid").  Eww.

Third, when you suggest that URM students have some kind of admissions extra, you do understand that at most schools, URM are way smaller than their percentage of the population, at least nationwide, right?  The last census - which wildly undercounted racial minorities - show that POC are 25% of the country.  And if you think that persons of color who have been systematically and structurally discriminated against over centuries (leading to less structural wealth and fewer opportunities to pass down to their children) deserve an additional leg up, that doesn't seem in any way surprising to me that a school would aim for a higher percentage.

I hope that when you get to your end of this you take some time to try to examine your feelings about this.  Because from the outside, there seems to be a lot of assumptions grounded in animus.  [/quote]

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