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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]URM favoritism is banned, so a moot point anyways.[/quote]

Wrong. It is banned based on race alone. Race as part of the lived experience is - permissible thing to consider.[/quote]

I love your logic. According to those who favored AA, URMs needed a leg up because they faced a lack of opportunity.[b]
In reality, though, today nearly all opportunities (like this internship) are for URMs only. [/b]We all know this when our children were looking for opportunities. As this thread shows, even if there is the - extremely rare - opportunity that allows applications by non-URMs, in the end, your child ends up in a URM-labeled program.

Now, with the SCOTUS decision, AOs are no longer allowed to look at race (as a sign of being disadvantaged), but they are allowed to look at participation in URM-only opportunities like this internship. So participation in URM-only internships has no become a sign of "lived experience" - presumably, the lived experience of being selected because of race for opportunities others aren't generally offered.[/quote]

What country do you live in?  Clearly from this line, it's not the USA, so I'm curious.

I think your kids should write their essay about the lived experience of having a parent who views the world through such a distorted lens.  [/quote]

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