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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are PPs saying that she only applied to reach schools? She should have gotten into Spelman. Secondly, the mistakes in calculating her math grades are a big effing deal.

Nigerian-Americans are still URMs. Sidwell knows this. A look at Harvard’s C/O 2023 confirms this. I think this case is a net positive for current and future students, as the school will probably do a better job of accurately reporting grades now. It makes me wonder if there are FA families who have had similar experiences with little, if any, recourse. [/quote]

I dont think she applied to Spelman on time.  So that changes the analysis a good bit.  And  the point was she may have been viewed as Nigerian rather than Nigerian-American (i.e., as a non-citizen, a category that does not receive the URM boost).[/quote]

She’s a US citizen. What do we call US born kids with Irish parents? American. She was URM, not an international candidate. First and second generation kids of African parents appear are a norm at HYP and you can best believe that the schools are counting them as AA.[/quote]

I don't think they're counted as AA necessarily.  But they're counted as black, and black kids are underrepresented minorities at these schools irrespective of their background.

For example, I'm black with West Indian roots, 1st-gen American.  My kid is black, with one African parent.  Still counts as an underrepresented minority--and despite being well-educated, our kid has already had discriminatory comments made to her at her private about the color of her skin.  We know other similarly well-educated 1st-gen black families who've had similar incidents at their privates, even changing schools because of it in some cases.[/quote]

AA and Black are the same category in this case. I say this as an AA/Black with at least a dozen generations in this country. There’s a separate thread about how many of the Black students in the incoming class of Harvard are first or second generation Americans. I served on a scholarship panel for the Greater Washington Urban League last year and noticed a similar trend as well. [/quote]

PP here and agree with your observations.  Generally speaking, first-gen black people in America haven’t experienced the same set of obstacles as black Americans that have been here for several generations.  It even starts before birth—for example, I read in an article that Africans are at lower risk for low birthweight and preterm birth than AAs. There are definitely some commonalities and shared experiences between the groups, but also some differences.[/quote]

PP again, with one other thought—I grew up entirely around AAs; my parents were the only immigrants around.  I later attended an HBCU for undergrad.  If you see me on the street—and many other 1st-gen kids like me--I’m indistinguishable from AAs whose ancestors arrived here under different circumstances.  I have no accent, unlike my parents, and my name is not clearly “foreign.”  First-gen black Americans can still be subject to implicit (and explicit) bias just based on appearance.  So I would not rule out that this girl may have experienced some sort of subtle discrimination that perhaps would not have happened had her family been white.[/quote]

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