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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody gets admitted because of race. It's not a bump. Don't  believe it. If there's a toss up between equals and a college realizes their students all are alike, then maybe on occasion given all other things equal someone might get a second look, but all things are equal so it's just the luck of teh draw at that point. Even lying about about race for a scholarship only puts you in the hunt, you're still competing against others on stats. Nobody gets a scholarship just because they are of a certain race, they simply might qualify for it. Even the most diverse colleges fall many percentages points under the representative average of most races, especially Black and Brown.[/quote]

I worked a summer program during college and we had this exclusive summer program for incoming minority freshmen. The test scores they had were shocking. I mean like 1,000 on the SAT or 20 on the ACT low. This was a state flagship requiring more like a 1350+ or 30+ for most students to have a chance.[/quote]

Oh this sounds so believable [/quote]

This is quite believable.  I tutored one minority student at a college like this when they recommended some remedial work.  The kid needed help with things like adding fractions.[/quote]

And I’ve met my fair share of dumb white students. So what?[/quote]

Not the point.  The point is they allowed that student to be at the college even though he was not prepared to be there.  The dumb white student would not have been accepted.  [/quote]

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