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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was talking to my husband about this kid last night. Our kid went to an Ivy. 2250 would not get most white kids into an Ivy (w/o a hook that is). 2250 would get the average white kid into Middlebury or Bowdoin.

The black kid's parents are from Ghana. The Ivies like minorities with direct Afrian roots and less so for African American kids. This kid's EQs were not stellar..but fine.

Simply put, w/o being black, he would not have gotten into 8 Ivies...maybe 2...Cornell and Brown.[/quote]

Which reminds me of these facts that everybody knows:

1. If you're black, and you get into a fancy school, it's because you are black, and you didn't deserve to get in.
2. If you're not black, and you get into a fancy school, you deserved to get in! Congratulations!
2a. If you're not black, and you get into a fancy school because your parent(s) went, and/or you're an athlete, that doesn't count as affirmative action.[/quote]

I would hope that no one says this kid doesn't "deserve" to get in to top schools.

But I hope you are myopic rather than disingenuous if you contend that selective college admission offices don't give points or preferences for minority applicants, all things being equal.[/quote]

Selective college admission offices give points or preferences for all kinds of things. But people only ever talk about one of them. (Hint: it's the "you're black" one.)[/quote]

Because that's the only preference that's racist. [/quote]

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