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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somehow my half white, half Asian kids got into multiple great schools each. I spent zero time worrying about this because I have confidence in my kids. [/quote]
There are always white/Asian kids who got in obviously. It's getting exponentially harder because the unfair disadvantage they're subject to.[/quote]

Eh, my kids had plenty of advantages in life. If someone kid who didn’t have the resources and support my kids have gets a leg up, I’m ok with that.[/quote]

Right in theory I feel the same way. But ever since I was a senior in high school and I didn't get into my dream School, but a rich, black, always -- joking around and taking away from the intellectual conversation in class--- student with much lower everything than me got in, I started to feel differently. He was a nice guy, had nothing against him personally, but to say he was more deserving of the opportunity than me was totally absurd. But, he checked a different box than me. I don't think that this is a fair thing at an institution receiving lots of federal funding. And apparently the supreme Court agrees with me. [/quote]

Look at it this way... that guy probably went on to engage and inspire more people than you would have after going to your dream school. And, yes, inspiring more people because of his culture and the color of his skin. It just works that way. We are not a culture-blind, color-blind world.[/quote]

Except we kind of are - I know enough first generation American, parents were blue collar, first in their family to finish college types who don't look the part that the rest of society wants to naively pigeon hole them into "privileged" category.  One can argue that given the criteria, this kind of applicant needs more assistance than some others.  [/quote]

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