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The vast majority of spots at competitive colleges will go to white kids. They will continue on their easy path of upward mobility. Why are you so focused on the handful of spots that go to URMs? What about other spots at those colleges that go to other kids with lesser grades? Don't hear you complaining once about them.

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+1     I recently talked to a white acquaintance who said her 13 year old daughter is interested in going to medical school, but "she probably won't get in because affirmative action will give all the spots to blacks".       She has her excuses ready 10 years in advance!     &lt;sarcasm&gt; After all, affirmative action is the only possible reason why she couldn't get in medical school &lt;\sarcasm&gt;
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No, your acquaintance probably read the AAMC charts that showed how difficult it is for whites to get in. (And if she's Asian, it's even worse.) It's actually quite discouraging to see how blacks with a B average get into medical school and whites with an A- average have to kiss their dream of becoming a doctor goodbye - unless they go to some crap Caribbean school.

When I meet a white doctor who recently graduated, I know how smart he must be. He had all the odds stacked against him, and still he made it.  [/quote]

No my acquaintance is an idiot.       There are 3% fewer slots for white applicants because of AA.[/quote]
I got news for you. Unless your acquaintance's kid can get all As and garner a top score on the MCAT, she will lose her place to a black kid with a B+ average and a score slightly above average on the MCAT. Data don't lie; liberals do.[/quote]

Nope - the kid is much more likely to lose the spot to a white or asian kid with slightly better scores.

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Only because the competition is segmented by race, in keeping with AA policies: whites have to compete against whites, and blacks against blacks. If racial preferences for blacks were removed, the kid would get in over a black kid. You're buying into the current AA policy, which forces a A- white kid to lose out to an A white kid, only because they had to reserve spots for the B black kids.

That's the point! You're showing how unfair AA is to the (rejected) white kids who are academically superior students to the (accepted) black kids. [/quote]

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