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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]speaking of agendas....

Why do you hate/resent African American professionals so much?

And do you have any evidence at all that their children are keeping *more qualified* first generation college African African students out of elite schools?  Seems highly unlikely.

Are you opposed to legacy preferences generally?[/quote]

No resentment here, I was just describing what you chose to ignore, driven by your obvious resentment against white students.

As for evidence, just look up this same thread, a few comments before ours:

1) "Overall, UC campuses are admitting more students from poor families than before the ban -- no surprise, perhaps, given demographic shifts and the system's post-Proposition 209 emphasis on reaching low-income students of all races. More than one third of the roughly 35,000 UC freshmen enrolled in 2010 came from families making less than $40,000, up from 28 percent in 1995. And even with record-high applications, the system's universities accepted 75 percent of all first-generation college students that year who applied." 
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23516740/affirmative-action-ban-at-uc-15-years-later

2) And, white and Latino admission rates have kept steady, while AA have gone down

3) Do your math

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I don't know where you see "obvious resentment against white students" in my post (which didn't even mention white students).  For the record, I'm white (and so's my soon-to-be college-bound child).  And, FWIW, I'm not the "NP" whom you accused of having an agenda.

The evidence I asked for was support for your claim that, pre Prop 209, the "relatively unqualified" children of Black doctors and lawyers were taking spots away from "truly qualified" first generation college students.  The passage you cite doesn't say anything about the respective qualifications of those two groups. [/quote]

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