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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's think about this honestly. You can be against affirmative action, but a black or brown kid did not take your spot.

Let's see how this works at an ivy league school: the vast majority of students come from legacy, athletics (club sports like crew, lacross and squash), donors and faculty. Then, you have early admission, but you have to have the funds to commit. All of which, I might add, have NOTHING to do with merit.

That leaves the rest to fight for a spot. Do you think those above are coming from black and brown students? Absolutely not.

So, your kid is still going to have a terribly difficult time getting into an ivy unless you fit one of those categories.

So in effect, the SC did what America has done throughout its history - create division among all of the have nots.[/quote]

Yes absolutely Asians were losing spots to URMs.

"Harvard itself found in a 2013 internal study that, if it admitted applicants solely on the basis of academic merit, its share of Asian American students would explode from 19 percent to 43 percent. Preferences for legacies and athletes have propped up the white share of students admitted. (One analysis finds the effect of those “pales in comparison” to the diversity benefits stemming from racial preferences.) Asian Americans are punished by both forms of preferences."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/the-left-is-gaslighting-asian-americans-on-school-admissions.html

In one of the concurring opinions: JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR apparently believes that race conscious admission programs can somehow increase the chances that members of certain races (blacks and Hispanics) are admitted without decreasing the 
chances of admission for members of other races (Asians). This simply defies mathematics.[/quote]

Test scores are not the only or even the best measure of merit. Stop making that bad-faith inference. [/quote]

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