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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are all overlooking the legacy problem.  Most colleges and universities slot 30% of openings to legacies.  So your incoming class for a state school is legacies; maximum allowed out-of-state kids (paying full freight); diversity candidates; overseas candidates; financially disadvantaged candidates; geographical selections to equal out distribution from the entire state; and, then, finally, the top scores (GPA) with 15 AP courses and top SAT or ACT scores, which means  your normal, good, white, very hard-working kid with a 3.8 and great but not perfect test scores doesn't have a chance to get into their own state university system that mom and dad have been  supporting for 20 years via property taxes.[/quote]

This really galls me.  I'm an asian parent - and don't you white parents think that MY "normal, good, asian, very hard-working kid with a 3.8 and great but not perfect test scores" shouldn't have an equal chance of getting admitted to the same state schools that I have also supported with property taxes for the last 20 years?  Why is it assumed that the asian kids who are superstars must compete with the normal white kids for spots, why not the normal asian kids competing with the normal white kids?  The underlying assumption that there is some white kid being "cheated" out of a college spot by some overachieving asian kid is just wrong - the overachieving asian kid deserved it more - just as any overachieving white kid would deserve a spot more than a "normal" white kid.  Asians shouldn't stand for this false choice that underlies the whole diversity argument.

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