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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The reality is that generally, employers love middle class kids from state schools who achieve at those schools because they have something to prove and a long way to go to get where they want to be, so they work the hardest."

If this were true, they'd be tripping over themselves for First Gen kids who go to the HYSMs. THESE are the people who work the hardest. To go from picking crops in the field to help your family pay the bills to a late night of studying for your AP English Comp class the next day should impress every employer. But alas, racism keeps them from seeing past their biases.[/quote]

As long as affirmative action is in place, those biases will exist.

And let’s be perfectly honest, the situation you describe is so far removed from reality and is relevant to an extremely tiny percentage of URMs at HYPS. I know more Asian immigrant families for whom that scenario fits to a T. I’m from NYC. There are hordes of Asian families (who, btw, make up the lowest income group in the city, yes, lower than Blacks and Latinos) whose kids studied relentlessly and worked odd jobs to help pay the bills all through high school and then got shafted by AA. But sob stories are just that. Sob stories. So cut it.[/quote]

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