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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I would have less issue with SES based affirmative action. It seems nuts to me that the sons and daughters of AA senior executives, surgeons and Big Law partners get a "URM" preference in college admissions. (President Obama said as much in 2008, when he said kids like his shouldn't get affirmative action.) If affirmative action were SES based, it would still pull in a large number of racial minority students.[/quote]

This is, essentially, what the top 10% policy at UT Austin is designed to do...level the playing field.  A poor inner city or rural school kid in the top of their class can get in as an auto admit, even if the rigor of their school is not as intense as some schools with more advantaged populations.[/quote]

Exactly. And that's why that part of UT's admission policies is not in question.

What's in question if the parallel "holistic" process apparently designed to bypass that top 10% policy to get in more "diversity"[/quote]

I don't understand why the 10% policy isn't bringing plenty of diversity.  A kid who's in the top 10% of her class in a rural high school or an inner city HS in San Antonio or Dallas gets in.  This likely would pull in lower SES and minority students who are academically successful and in a sense gives them a leg up over kids in a high SES, high-performing HS in an advantaged area like Highland/University Park (DAL), River Oaks (HOU) or Alamo Heights (SA).[/quote]

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