<p>The "socioeconomic" construct (itself created in contemplation unfavorable court decisions) which the elite colleges are now pushing has a number of serious problems:</p>
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<li><p>it is well known the majority of black acceptees (and Hispanic) under affirmative action programs at the top colleges over the past several decades have arrived from middle class or often substantially more affluent family backgrounds</p>
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<li>A program that is (purportedly) designed to discriminate in favor of (lower) socioeconomic class applicants, will of course have to include large number of poor whites and poor Asians with SAT scores far below the median, something the same colleges have shown no sign of a willingness to undertake.</li>
<li>Colleges who now worship at the shine of diversity, strangely enough are quite willing to group nearly all Asians together - so that male upper middle class male from Chicago is deemed "underrepresented" yet for example a 1st generation student from Tibet now living in America who was once raised by Tibetan monks is simply another (over represented) Asian</li>
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