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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And I bet the legacy URM had a weaker profile.[/quote]
I'm betting you're not too familiar with students from highly competitive schools like SFS.  I know lots of URM students there (although admittedly not in this year's senior class), and many of them are some of the smartest kids in the class.  If a URM child happens to have Ivy-league parents - and all the financial, social, and genetic benefits that pedigree entails - I'd guess the kid has a plenty strong profile.

It seems you're assuming that URM students and legacies are most often less qualified than their peers at top area schools like SFS.  In my experience, your assumption is not accurate.[/quote]
Didn't Obama once say that children like his (Ivy legacy, affluent, lots of resources, successful parents) didn't need preference (call it URM, affirmative action, whatever) because they already have more advantages than most kids?  It seems to me that URM should be superfluous rather than additive when the parents are successful corporate executives, managing partners in Big Law and noted surgeons (not to mention president), and who themselves may be legacies at highly selective schools.[/quote]
Are you the person who wrote the original "weaker profile" comment?  If so, you appear to be changing your tune a bit, from "must be a weaker profile" to "doesn't deserve any preference."  The common thread is your negative view of URM students.[/quote]

Different writer.  But is there really anyone who can defend with a straight face URM preferences for the sons/daughters of highly successful, affluent professionals?  [/quote]

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