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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ho boy.  If you ever wanted to incentivize the appearance of disadvantage, here it is.  Watch as parents rush to their department store DNA tests to claim "ancestry" in faraway lands in order to claim allegiance to some oppressed minority.  Watch social failings like single-parent households, high crime rates, divorce and abuse become marketable assets.  This is disgusting.[/quote]

Oh, why didn't I get pregnant in my teens and live in that crime ridden neighborhood?[/quote]

Too bad they didn't add refugee and immigrant status as well - it takes a lot to do well in a new country and new culture especially if relatively recent

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This country is bizarre.  We are not trying to keep anyone from getting a college education.  But, please people, what country takes its most elite educational opportunities (where you should be expected to be advanced in both [u]intellect AND preparation[/u] in order to take advantage of the resources), and doles out access based on fairness or population group?  Why should we take opportunities paid for and developed through the resources of our country and give them to people just because they specifically don't come from our country?    [/quote]

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Our country was not built on equality. Anyone who believes this is a fool. Our country is about capitalism and money. We fail at the capitalist game if we dont ensure our citizens are well educated and able to work and produce.

As you can see we no longer want to take in immigrants and at the same time we have some of the most advantaged people in our country scamming the college process - so yeah here we are. Do people not get what all of this is really about? It's all wrapped up in fuzzy language but it is not about doing the right thing.

I'm not for or against the adversity score. My kid is at a school that was part if the pilot so it worked out. However I'm always shocked at how people are so unsophisticated in understanding complex social problems.

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