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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if a kid mentions their race or references it in an essay, what is the "fair admission" guy saying? That AOs can't use the essay? [/quote]

That was one of the questions asked by (I think) Justice Jackson. There was no direct answer.  [/quote]

Eventually agreed that it is probably ok in that context, since an Asian student could also reference in their essay eg. discrimination that they may also have faced growing up.[/quote]

I heard Jackson ask whether if you have 2 kids, one whose family has lived in NC for 5 generations and gone to UNC for 5 generations, and one whose family has lived in NC for 5 generations and could not go to UNC for 5 generations because of slavery, could they each say it was important to them to go to UNC for those reasons and could UNC consider each of those stories as factors and the plaintiffs' lawyer basically said UNC could consider the first and not the second (though he did say UNC could refuse to consider the first, and could consider first gen or low SES students).[/quote]

Good example. Lets say that you have 2 kids. Once the child of African American physicians, the other the child of SWVA coal miners. Currently the African American child gets the admissions bump. Maybe looking at SES is a better way to give children of less parents a leg up than race because  [/quote]
Wouldn't the 2nd get a bump, too? Possibly 1st gen, geographic diversity, SES diversity, underprivileged area.[/quote]

because the race bump is bigger and there are only so many seats to go around [/quote]

Huh? How do you know the race piece is a bigger factor that first gen/low income? Was that published somewhere?

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Be know that Harvard had quotas for black students and that there were no mention of quotas for first gen. Schools could make their rubrics public and dispel these fears, but they never will [/quote]

Yup time for a transparent process rather than this black box of subjectivity. [/quote]

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