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[quote=Anonymous]"I know about 10 kids in my neighborhood who have checked the URM box due to grandma being from spain or being black or being allegedly fractionally american indian, whatever. Our neighborhood houses start at $1M.[b] So the concept of this scrappy youngster is a very small majority of URMs in real life (I believe).[/b] And for those kids that are truly disadvantaged, they are better off at mid range schools. Not to be mean but there is a ton of evidence and studies showing that when you go in to a school far below the norms of GPA and SAT that you struggle (shocker!) and that struggle makes them feel insecure and stressed and that in turn results in drop outs and defaults on loans - check the data. It's not like letting kids in who are hundreds of points below everyone else magically catch up by virtue of their acceptance. Maybe a few can rise to the occasion, but most cant."

So you live in a tiny pocket where the top 5% live, and you think all URMs applying to very selective colleges are kids like the ones in your exclusive neighborhood with a Spanish abuela? I take it that recreational marijuana is legal wherever this neighborhood is and that you've been overdoing with the brownies?

There is no study published in a reputable journal that says what you're claiming about the best educational settings for high achieving URMs. Are you dumb as well as high?

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