<p>I know that colleges want to diversify their student bodies...</p>
<p>However, does that mean that adcoms look at upper-class URMs the same way they look at lower-class URMs?</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I think the consensus is yes. Basically, to elite colleges, black is black, no matter how much money is in the family. This viewpoint, IMHO, is incredibly racist. It supposes that a black person will undoubtedly bring a diversity to the campus due merely to their blackness/ skin color. How about diversity of thought, opinion, beliefs, values, etc...? Or do all black people have the same ones (NOTE DRIPPING SARCASM)?</p>
<p>It's also interesting to note what would happen if people at the university explicitly acknowledged this. For example, imagine you're in a Freshmen seminar discussing a literary work. There's one black student and the rest are Asian or white. Everyone has given their opinion on the work except the black kid who has sat silent the entire class period. The professor or discussion leader turns to him and says, "OK Jamal, we'd all like to hear the black perspective please."</p>