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[quote=Anonymous]"Yeah WTF a major goal of mind as a parent is to ensure my kids DO NOT experience adversity and now I’m hearing I shouldn’t have done that."

It's not that your kid is disadvantaged in admissions for not experiencing diversity. It's that any kid who has parents with college degrees who can live in a great neighborhood, send them to strong high schools, and provide them with expensive enrichment programs from the time they're babies, should be able to do really well in high school academically. They should be able to demonstrate mastery and eventually leadership in multiple activities. The UMC kids in the DMV have more resources thrown at them than any group of humans throughout history, for goodness sake. So, they should be the brightest stars imaginable.

When a kid is first-gen college, URM, low-income, and maybe English as a second language, and that kid can score in range with your kid, that means that that kid has every bit as much innate and nurtured talent as your kid and then some. You probably have no idea how much inner drive and hours of work it takes for those kids to be on par with your kid, especially when the whole world has been telling them since birth that they aren't good enough because of their race.

If your kid has never gone without anything, what's their excuse for not being beyond amazing? Because those schools want amazing. Not just par for the course bright kids. 
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