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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the colleges, including Harvard, don't give a shit about the true purpose of affirmative action and their ethical and moral role in making it a success for the greater good of the society.  They all want easy way out to check the box and tout the number admitted.  They don't care if the student and the family are wealthy and recent immigrants from Africa or the student is from a wealthy, well educated, wellconnected black family.  In fact, the colleges prefer it that way so that they don't need to provide academic support services, if needed by the true affirmative action admits.  If the colleges really care about it, with their filthy rich tax-exempt endowments they would adopt some school districts in poor neighborhoods and promote Pre-K to 12 schooling and after-school enrichment and use those school districts as pipelines into their Freshman admissions and to show case them as models for success.

The law should be changed for affirmative action to be available to children born only in the U.S. and parental income less than median income of U.S. households ($60K to $75K).  There should be birth place and income verification before affirmative action admission is awarded.   [/quote]

Again: Its. Not. Affirmative. Action.

And, for the record, Harvard and other elite colleges do consider family income when admitting, and the Harvard lawsuit showed being poor was an ADVANTAGE in admissions, particularly when coming off the waitlist (where the opposite is true at most colleges which have far smaller endowments).[/quote]

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