<p>race: caucasian
gender: female
economic background: mid to upper middle class
parents education level: mom- bachelors engineering, dad- masters physics
SAT score: 1580 old, 2280 new (800 X 4 on SAT II)
GPA: 3.99/4.00
class rank: 1 or 2
affirmative action based on race: good or bad? still deciding...
affirmative action based on economic background: good or bad? good</p>
<p>Race: Asian (Pakistani)
Gender: Male
EB: 500K +
Parents' education level: Both MD
SAT: 1310
GPA: 3.61 Highschool....4.0 first year of college (30 hours)
Class rank: 20
AA based on race: BAD
AA based on Economic Background: Good for college...based on a number of factors though...i.e. whether the prospective student worked part-time, number of siblings and ages of each (whether he/she spent time taking care of the family or not)...sorry to be blunt...and i dont' mean to be rude...but if you're poor, and you sit on your ass all day and expect to get some leniancy....that's just pitiful....but if you're actually doing something and using your time to help yourself/family, you do deserve some kind of advantage in the admissions process.</p>
<p>Race: Spanish
Gender: Male
Economic Background: Middle-Class
Parent's education level: Mom-Some College, Dad-B.A
SAT Score: None, ACT: 31
GPA: 3.72 UW, 4.0 throughout college
Class Rank: n/a
Affirmative Action Based on Race: Very Good
Affirmative Action Based on Economic Background: Very Good. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>to the OP, or to anyone interested in doing this:</p>
<p>would you organize the results such that we could see things like how many responses of each race were for or against AA. I guess SAT score and parents' education might also be interesting, but I think the most interesting would be by race.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>"hhmmmm i wonder what political party the ppl against AA are in. Democrats should obviously be for AA and Republicans against...or at least thats normally so."</p>
<p>I would consider myself a libertarian on social issues, and a democrat on economic issues. </p>
<p>i am AGAINST AA, FOR gay marriage, FOR ending the drug war, FOR private business's right to hire whoever they want based on anything including race or gender. I am against just about every wrongful termination lawsuit. i'm for the right of private colleges to admit students based on race, hell, they can admit students based on who looks the hottest, but if i was running a private college, i would not want it to be racist in its admissions. </p>
<p>so don't think everything is going to be one way or the other.</p>
<p>Race: Asian(Chinese)
Gender: Male
Economic Background: Upper class(i think, household income is somewhere about $300,000)
Parents educational level: Both parents have M.D. and Ph. D's.
SAT score: 2240
GPA: 4.6 on a 5.0 scale
class rank: our school doesn't rank
AA based on race: BAD
AA based on economic conditions: good, if it isn't overdone and exploited.</p>
<p>Race: Black
Gender: Male
Economic Background: Middle Class
SAT score: 1470 (old)
GPA: 3.8 /4.0
AA based on race: Good
AA based on economic conditions: Not as good</p>
<p>"You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line in a race and then say, 'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair." - LBJ (1965)</p>
<p>I offer that quote to any opposers :)</p>
<p>ok, i was bored today, and I did what I was asking others to do:</p>
<p>I collected 38 responses on this survey (i originally thought there were alot more)</p>
<p>Black-4
White-13
Eastern Asian (i.e. chinese, japanese, korean etc.)-12
Hispanic-4
Other (mixed or southern asian)-5</p>
<p>Percentage of responses by race who are FOR race based AA (remember, the sample is really small)</p>
<p>Black-75% (3/4)
White-38% (5/13)
Asian-25% (3/12)
Hispanic-50% (2/4)
Other-20% (1/5)</p>
<p>race: Asian (Parents are from India)
gender: Male
economic background: Upper Middle Class
parents education level: Grad. School
SAT score: 2220 (710M, 730CR, 780WR)
PSAT: 227 (80 M, 80 WR, 67 CR)
GPA: 4.7, 4.0 (school does not weight AP Classes)
class rank: t4r1 (tie between 4 ppl for 1)
affirmative action based on race: bad
affirmative action based on economic background: good</p>
<p>Race: A good old AMERICAN mut
gender: Male
Economic back round : mom=80k yearly, dad 110k yearly.
Parents education: Mom= Master Degree in education From Boston Universtiy, Dad= BA. Philosophy-GeorgeTown - Masters Business University of Chicago
Sat score: 1200 (old sat)
Gpa: 3.0
School: Universtiy of California Santa Cruz
affirmative action based on race: Good
affirmative action based on economic backround: real good</p>
<p>croberts yey ucsc, i think i can get in now :)</p>
<p>fine ill finally give in and fill out the survey</p>
<p>Race: white
gender: Male
Economic back round : both parents retired. mom CPA ~ 80k?, dad international risks management ~125k
Parents education: both parents bachelors at cal poly SLO, majoring in business and accounting.
Sat score: 2010
Gpa: 3.3
affirmative action based on race: very bad
affirmative action based on economic backround: bad</p>
<p>race: White/Asian
gender: Male
economic background: upper middle class
parents education level: BS/BS (Business)
SAT score: 2300
GPA: 3.74/4.08
class rank: n/a
affirmative action based on race: Awful and unconstitutional.
affirmative action based on economic background: BAD - simply because it ruins the idea of "need blind"</p>
<p>i dont think my stats got me into ucsc as much as my extra cirrucluars, and my excellent personal essay.</p>
<p>race: white/asian
gender: female
economic background: upper class
parents education level: MD
*SAT score: 1350
*GPA: 3.9
class rank: 17/263
affirmative action based on race: good or bad? AWFUL!
affirmative action based on economic background: good or bad? AWFUL!</p>
<p>*scores from last year, when i graduated </p>
<p>question: how can you justify affirmative action based on race but consider it bad to look at economic background? or vice versa -- it seems like the argument should be the same for either</p>
<p>race: white
gender: male
economic background: upper class
parents education level: masters-dad, bachelors-mom
SAT score: 1870
GPA: 4.0
class rank:top 10%
affirmative action based on race: bad
affirmative action based on economic background:bad</p>
<p>Colleges also give preference due to geography; ie. if you're from some state that the school has few people from you might get preference and that's BAD, EVIL--admissions people should go to HELL for doing that....straight to hell....</p>
<p>...I'm from California....</p>
<p>race: white
gender: female
economic background: upper middle class
parents education level: mom - BA plus teaching credential, dad - BS
SAT score: 1990, ACT: 33
GPA: 4.03 out of 4.0
class rank: 1
affirmative action based on race: bad!
affirmative action based on economic background: bad!</p>
<p>race: White
gender: Male
economic background: Lower Class/ $20,000 Income (parents divorced)
parents education level: Dad-GED Mom-HS
SAT score:1980
GPA:3.82
class rank:No Rank, but I'd guess top 10%
affirmative action based on race: bad*
affirmative action based on economic background: good </p>
<ul>
<li>I think that action based upon race is being abused by those with large incomes while those minorities with low incomes aren't able to get much of an advantage. AA was implemented to help minorites because they were, on average, more poor than whites.</li>
</ul>
<p>race: Asian
gender: Male
economic background: Middle Class
parents education level: Mom-masters, Dad-bachelors
SAT score: 1480
GPA: 4.6 out of 4.0
class rank: top 10%
affirmative action based on race: good or bad? bad
affirmative action based on economic background: good or bad? good as long as they don't go overboard with it.</p>
<p>Race: Black
No did not take SAT. I took the harder A-levels.</p>
<p>However, 4 A's on A levels Abingdon Prep England. Obtained Masters in Compsci from Exeter College at Oxford University.</p>
<p>AA based on race is good. It helps correct present inequities in
our educational system. Blacks and Hispanics do better academically once they are in stable learning environment.</p>