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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If someone I work with went to a very competitive school and I don't think they're very impressive, if I find out their father went to the same school, I'm going to be suspicious that they got into that school on academic merit. Even if they did.

By the same token, if that person is from an URM group and they're underperforming, I may also assume they didn't get in based on academic merit. Even if they did.

Our Supreme Court nominee seems amazingly qualified, yet people were asking to see her LSAT scores. Is this racist? Maybe. But unfortunately, raced-based admissions raises those questions.

I wish people picked on unfair legacy admissions more than race-based ones. But when you make race a factor in admissions, you can't fault logically-thinking people from assuming race was a factor in any given admission decision. (And telling them their poor snowflake didn't cut it won't change that.)

Sure, if people don't like holistic admissions policies, their kids can simply apply elsewhere. But their support of race-blind policies aren't what is fanning the flames of racism. It is race-based policies that perpetuate racial stereotypes and prejudice.[/quote]
+1 well stated, and ITA.[/quote]

Let me find a scapegoat for my own racist beliefs! It’s not me its you. I love it. +10000. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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