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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I thought smart kids went to IVY. Now I know it has nothing to do with how smart they are.  [/quote]

It absolutely does, and also how hard they had to work to overcome really hard circumstances. As it should be.[/quote]

Speaking of fantasies.  Overcoming hard circumstances?  For maybe 2% of them. The rest are privileged beyond comprehension for most Americans. [/quote]

I hate to break it to you, but being first gen and/or a URM IS a hard circumstance.[/quote]

I hate to break it to you, but my 1/4 black kids who look 100% white and have been raised in an upper middle class home are considered URMs for the purpose of college admissions.  They definitely have not had unduly “hard circumstances” and yet it is kids like them who benefit most from affirmative action.  I’m certainly not going to force them to not claim 1/4th of their ancestry and hence lower their admissions potential but objectively it is blatantly unfair  that they are getting this huge advantage.[/quote]

What goes around comes around. Why do you think Americans support Nixon and Reagan's war on drugs that affect blacks disproportionately with mass incarceration?  [/quote]

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