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[quote=Anonymous]OK, here's a question for those of you who think that broad-sweeping bias against blacks should entitle them to be advantaged over whites in college admissions. What would you do in the following case: A college has one more slot to fill, and it comes down to a black girl from a middle-income family (daddy is a GS-13 and mommy is a public relations coordinator for a private company) who has a 3.6, and a poor white kid with uneducated parents (daddy works in a factory and mommy is a ticket-taker at the movie theater) who, despite having to work part-time after school to bring in money, still managed a better GPA at 3.7, or even tied at 3.6. What if, despite his disadvantaged background, he had a 3.5? (Assume SAT scores are virtually identical.) Shouldn't the disadvantaged kid get that last spot? The white one? THAT is what income-based AA policy would look like. - OP[/quote]
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