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[quote=Anonymous]A general goal of diversity (of all types -- geographic, sex, age, race, etc.) is fine. That is actually beneficial to the academic experience. As long as all applicants are similarly qualified. However, the only PREFERENCE should go to those with a disadvantaged socio-economic background (i.e., poor, first generation to attend college, etc.). Granted, many of those applicants will be minorities and that is fine. But there is a reverse irony where a well-to-do black applicant who attended privileged prep schools gets in over a poor, white applicant with a better profile who overachieved and is the first in his family to attend college. This actually happens on a fairly regular basis in academia. It is unjustifiable.[/quote]
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