<p>Vicks: I put it down because it made sense. If I have to write an essay about "challenges overcome", that is the obvious challenge. I have to declare my disability anyway in order to recieve Sect. 504 and ADA reasonable accomodations anyway. My point is just that my challenge (having a disability) shouldn't automatically get more weight than your challenge (whether that's income, race, divorced parents, or something as simple as, "my teachers didn't like me because I wasn't a minority" - the point is that <em>everyone's</em> challenge should be given consideration, rather than just the "pre-approved" challenges).</p>
<p>Can you demostrate your challenge and how you overcame it?</p>
<p>Is it measurable?</p>
<p>Let say my chanllenge is the fact that I came to the states 4 years ago. Now that's clearly definable. I could not learn English until that point and my perfermence is obviously going to be impaired. </p>
<p>Samething for a kid grew up in inner city. </p>
<p>But what if you say that I am a white kid who doesn't liked by the teacher, and you got straight As, where is your challenge? It never hit you, and you've never overcame it.</p>
<p>thisyearsgirl, and I was exactly saying that.</p>
<p>Oh BTW, if you actually went to read the fundemental theory of communism, USA is probably the most communistic country on earth</p>
<p>-lack of distinction between city and rural areas
-strong welfare and social protection
-social secruity
-equal opportunity programs.
-at last, maybe even sexual freedoms.</p>
<p>Blackdream -- I was replying to another post that seems to have been deleted. Someone else brought up communism, and I didn't think that it was relevant to the discussion.</p>
<p>sure. but affirimative action inherently involves one thing, that is uneven distribution of sources based on government policy rather than personal merits.</p>
<p>i say everyone need to have education, but the DEPTH of education they recieve should be purely based on merit.</p>