3.57, 1650....Got into Cornell!

<p>“What guarantee is there that these high achieving people are going to go back to their impoverished communites to help out instead of settling down in a predominantely white middle/upper class community.”</p>

<p>-Part of the point of this program is to create a larger middle class within the Black community. Social integration is at the heart of Affirmative Action. Thus, it’s not a bad thing that some in the Black middle class settle outside impoverished communities. </p>

<p>“What people have to do is solve the problem at the root which is the urban communites from which the students come from.”</p>

<p>-What about the urban communities? Education? Crime? Joblessness? Housing? Simply saying that people come from urban communities is not stating a problem. Also, what about places like Mississippi and South Carolina, places that contain substantial Black populations, but no real urban centers? Can the same solutions that are to be applied to larger urban communities also be applied to these places? It’s highly unlikely; this issue is not as shallow as people like to make it seem.</p>