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My sympathy lies with the poor white kids, who have excelled academically despite financial hardships, only to lose out to black kids with worse school records - INCLUDING middle-class black kids  and for no other reason than skin color. It's abhorrent that liberals have such disdain for poor whites. [/quote]

The chances are that, for those very few seats that go to URMs that receive an AA boost (not all do), the poor white kids would have "lost out" anyway to other white kids who scored marginally better. There are many more majority applicants than URMs. That's the whole issue.

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Poor white kids with outstanding academic records from poor public schools do receive a boost. I am a white guy who was accepted by Princeton and Stanford from a rural county school. I was one of hundreds, if not thousands,  who had great grades, similar SAT scores, great recommendations, etc. It would be hard to distinguish between us. I have no doubt that I was accepted because I was credited for excelling despite my school over kids who may have had slightly better SAT scores after their prep school AP classes and SAT tutoring. [/quote]

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