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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.
In reality, though, today nearly all opportunities (like this internship) are for URMs only. We all know this when our children were looking for opportunities. [b]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.
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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]

A. This is not my logic. The logic is that of the U.S. Supreme Court. Go read the third to last paragraph of the main opinion. I strongly suggest you read the majority opinion. Your first sentence of your last paragraph is NOT what the court said. The court is absolutely allowed to look at race as a sign of being disadvantaged if it is part of an essay.

As a side note: with regard to the ending of your first sentence of your last paragraph: I mean, of course, AOs can consider participation in ALL opportunities. Would you suggest that kids can put down Model UN but not Hispanic Club? Or FBLA but not Black Entrepreneurs? You're absurd.

B. Although that paragraph (third from the end) from the majority opinion notes that students can discuss how race affected their life, I don't think anyone would use the opportunity to do so to show excessive opportunities that were offered to them (and to the exclusion of others) based on race.

C. There are definitely internship opportunities only available to minorities, however, you're crazy if you think this thread has shown anything of the sort of what you stated in bold above.

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