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[quote=Anonymous]After a year of people asking rude, intrusive and downright racist questions to me and my AA son, I have the following to say

1.  To assume that all AA candidates are underperforming and no other group has underperforming candidates is truly crazy and flies in the face of common sense.  Most successful  urm  candidates to the top colleges have a set of stats that will allow them to succeed. Even if the are not perfect stats.  I'm not witnessing among my friends a plethora of AA kids getting into ivy leagues schools with or without high stats.  The ones that are have Very Strong grades and test scores.

2.  A previous poster about law school said it right.  I used my intellect and hard work to succeed and used others expectations  of me to my advantage.  I have learned to never underestimate others aNd to not judge a book by its cover.

3.  Why do all of these discussions devolve into criticizing AA students, as opposed to International students, development cases, legacy and athletic admissions, which all dwarf AA admissions numbers.  Racial animous, bias and hostility is what I believe to be a cause.  Especially at this time of the year where college acceptances have been sent out.  There has to be someone to blame for your child not getting in.  So guess who is to blame?  That black kid whom YOU KNOW is not as well qualified as your child.

4.  About mr. French's child, again, as the previous poster said, talk to him in 15 years.  My middle class son has been stopped by the police, on his way to his fancy private school.  People make assumptions about his intellect that confuse him and he does not understand why he has to fight for placement into the top classes in a way that his classmates with similar grades don't have to fight.

5.  This year my child is a senior. In order to keep sane and civil, I have had to walk away from (or give a benign responses to) parents and their offspring suggesting my child has it easy because he is black and that colleges were probably rolling out the welcome mat and throwing money at us.  In fact, the college process was probably the same for him as I expect it is for many of you--infuriating, disappointing, baffling, arduous, but ultimately, fine.[/quote]

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