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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are no objective criteria for admission to these schools which is why I suspect plaintiffs will lose.  If they could actually prove quotas, say that there is a cap on Asians, that would be one thing.  But I highly doubt thats what is going on.  And its not as if Asians are underrepresented compared to their percentage in the general population.  If anything, they are overrepresented.  So the claim comes down to "we are more qualified than people who got in" which isn't going to go anywhere because there is no way to measure who is qualified.  I suspect these schools would prefer original thinkers over kids who have been packaged all their lives and get the grades/scores.  There are several such kids at my daughter's school, and they do very well academically and participate in all the extra-curricular activities their parents have told them will help them get into an Ivy.  There are a bazillion kids like that out there and probably most don't get into the top Ivies.

I guess I resent this sense of entitlement -- my child deserve to be admitted because of her scores and grades and that other child doesn't.  [b]That other child may just be a lot more interesting[/b].[/quote]

How do you define interesting? Other than being homeless, the most "interesting" entries on a kid's resume costs the parents big money, such as volunteering overseas.... Middle class families can not compete with upper class families.[/quote]

Obviously "interesting" is subjective but it certainly doesn't include kids whose parents can send them on these oversees "community service" junkets.  I don't think colleges are impressed by that at all.  I have no idea why you think being interesting always costs money.  A student who is a great poet, who develops some kind of novel scientific theory, who is politically active, who pursues some kind of unique interest like puppetry or playing mandolin, a child who is an original thinker and isn't just packaged.  None of these things are dependent on wealthy or connected parents.[/quote]

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