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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP then who really deserves a helping hand?  Otherwise race blind. [/quote]

My personal opinion is to do away with affirmative action, and instead of working through our education system, develop targeted and conditional job offers to communities with poverty and crime issues. Affirmative action tries to right a wrong with another wrong but is unfair to other students in the process. Populations selected through affirmative action then have the legitimacy of their achievements disputed. It's not working.[/quote]

I agree, and I am super liberal.

I went to a highly selective college and most of the minority students were from wealthy homes with a tradition of valuing education, often immigrant doctors or professors.[/quote]

I think the dirty little secret of highly selective colleges is that they are quite happy to take URMs from upper middle class families because the school gets to pad their URM admissions statistics without taking on the retention, assimilation and performance risks associated with a URM that comes from socioeconomically disadvantaged families. [/quote]

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