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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in an upper-middle class area, and the neighbors were all engineers, Ph.D.'s, accountants, and economists. Why should the black children in the neighborhood get a "leg-up" over high-achieving poor whites in Brooklyn (or wherever) when it comes to getting into a competitive college?

Affirmative action should be based on a combination of better-than-average-grades and family income. This could be accomplished by giving "special chance" points to the top 5% in every school who ALSO has a family income of less than $100,000. In the inner-city and poor rural areas, just about everyone is from a sub-$100,000 family, so the top 5% get the special-chance points. Thus, in a crappy DC public school with 400 graduating seniors, about 20 would get the AA points. In a wealthy Bethesda W school, perhaps only 1 or 2 would (because a high family income would disqualify the others).

In addition, kids qualifying for special-chance points would get the equivalent of tuition of the state's 4-year public university. End result is the exceptional kids from lower-middle-class (or poorer) families get the leg up in admission AND tuition support. Race would not be a factor (although since black families earn less than whites, on average, they would still benefit disproptionately).

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Couldn't agree more.

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OP here, and thank you.

(As you can imagine, though, liberals on this forum have called me a racist for daring to suggest a new approach that may help low-income whites as well as blacks.)[/quote]

Yes. It has been quite enlightening to read how conservative and reactionary so many "progressives" truly are.[/quote]

PP was called a racist because she was only focused on black kids taking spots. Not other URMs. Not athletes. Not legacy kids. Those are all simply unchangeable.

Is that what you think as well? It’s ok for Billy to lose his seat to a rich LAX bro or a rich legacy, but definitely not ok for that black kid to have it?

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