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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For instance Sonia Sotomayor and Michelle Obama to name two! They didn't come into Princeton with strong academic backgrounds but clearly had enormous potential. 
And to the PP who thinks that "white males" are the ones that are being disadvantaged by attempts to have a more heterogenous class, totally wrong, male applicants have an advantage at all the top schools, because if used grades and scores alone (particularly grades), and even taking into account extracurriculars, they would be admitting probably 70% female applicants, so they specifically need to work hard to have a class more or less balanced by sex, except at places that are 100% technical/engineering ie MIT[/quote]

Just curious, what makes you think they did not have strong academic backgrounds prior to college entrance?  Is this published somewhere?  I was under the impression that MO attended a private highschool on partial scholarship.  [/quote]

I'm not the PP you're quoting, but Sotomayor's new book includes extensive discussion of her experience entering Princeton at a significant disadvantage due to her poor academic preparation.  With great determination she pulled herself up by her bootstraps, graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the Pyne Prize, Princeton's highest undergraduate honor.  [/quote]

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