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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With Hogg and the Islamic south Asian kid who wrote blm 100 times for his Stanford essay, I can see middle school parents start to get their kids starting social justice clubs and groups by the thousands across the country.

It’s a great hook. 
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I found find your comment so distasteful. What this kid and his classmates went through I wouldn't ever want my kids to experience even if it meant they would get automatically accepted into Harvard. He heard the screams and anguish of his classmates. He tried to escape and flee but luckily a janitor told him to turn back and hide. He hid with other students in a closet like sitting ducks hoping not to get slaughtered. He was texting with his little sister hoping she didn't get killed either. 
Then to be strong enough to lead a youth movement against gun violence is remarkable.

He certainly didn't do it for a hook. [/quote]

All of this is true.  I feel for all of those kids.  But it has nothing to do about his qualifications to attend an elite university.  Our country is bizarre.  An elite education, with the best professors, the best labs and libraries and the most intellectual peers (all subsidized by both the US government and by US philanthropy), should be reserved for those who are most academically able to use this opportunity to better our country.  We fritter away those extremely limited spots trying to make social policy, and by "enhancing diversity" to bring in a large number of international students.  Are we better off helping kids from all backgrounds attend college?  Yes, but not at our top institutions.  Meanwhile, we push more able kids down the food chain in a weird mismatch of talent and resources.[/quote]

Top colleges pick kids who they think will benefit [b]the college[/b] the most in the future.  It's only partly academic.[/quote]

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