<p>I am tired of all these threads, where you have middle class minorties who think they because they are urms they deserve to be accepted despite low stats. I am not racist, and I think affirmitive action is good as long as it helps those who need it. Those people who live in low income urban areas and are thus disadvanted deserve some consideration as long as they work really hard. But if you go to 20k prep school, low scores and urm advantage is really not fair. Affirmitive action should help only those who need and shouldn't be based on race but economic standards.</p>
<p>yes...I think most everyone here agrees on that.</p>
<p>i should be accepted to college because i'm hot.</p>
<p>(sorry... i just thought i'd jump on the political bandwagon..)</p>
<p>if I were an adcom, you would be.</p>
<p>you might need to do some personal visits to convince me of your credentials though.</p>
<p>haha. i actually laughed out loud at that...</p>
<p>I agree. I'm not against colleges using affirmative action based on economics and environment. (For example, giving the poor inner-city kid a little bit of benefit of the doubt,) but I don't think that it should be handed out solely on race (for example, the rich suburban black minority with all the advantages beating out the waspy but extremely poor candidate).</p>
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<p>So am I, yet this seems to be one...</p>
<p>Stop arguing that pro-affirmative action threads shouldn't be made when you make one bashing it, resulting in more of the same argument you wish to apparently stop.</p>
<p>^^^^Get'em, Brother!</p>
<p>Yes, I agree on it too when it works ideally</p>
<p>the problem is that it isn't very effective at helping low income hispanics and blacks( look at statistics) when more can be done instead by internally changing the flaws of the educational system. Also, once they get into the job world, they will find that they will not get the special treatment that they were accustomed to</p>