<p>:) I certainly don't look completely white!! :) :)
:) :)</p>
<p>Hmm. I really hope you aren't a white guy in disguise. Either way, I'm boycotting this thread. Good night.</p>
<p>And that makes everything better. Clarence Thomas doesn't look completely white and for all I know he should be a white man. </p>
<p>You depress me and stop with the smiley faces.</p>
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classes: honors, pretty tough schedule
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"Pretty" tough? Ivies will expect you to have taken the most rigorous classes available. Your one club is not terribly impressive either, I'm afraid. Colleges prefer in-depth commitment, but I think that means more than one or two ecs. </p>
<p>Most of the Ivies will be reaches. I hope you have good matches (and safeties). Good luck! :)</p>
<p>I don't care if a 1/4 black person puts down that they are black in their college applications. My main issue with you is that you never considered yourself black until you realized it could boost you in college admissions; you plan on writing essays about discrimination when you have not experienced any, and you also plan on not identifying yourself as a black person after you get accepted into wherever you want to go. Sure it's all nice and dandy during good times that being black is good and you go claiming it as if it was the best thing in the world, but when in environment where being black is not good, you will automatically scram to conceal you 1/4 blackness. Those are the main issues of why I am irritated.</p>
<p>I am 1/4 white, but I am not going to mark down white, simply because I do not identify with the culture and I have been viewed as a black person my entire life.</p>
<p>My Point Exactly</p>
<p>I'm checking out now. Good night!</p>
<p>I think the OP is creating a horrible stereotype for URMs. After reading what the OP wrote, people will start to assume that all URMs got into college by exploiting their minority status, and not through their merits. (which is definately not true)</p>
<p>Please don't feed the trolls. </p>
<p>Someone keeps registering on CC under various new names in order to start race-baiting threads designed to get everyone riled up. The last such attempts were requests for feedback on outlandishly goofy essays, all employing the same style of writing as "IamBlack". As you can see by clicking on the OP's name, this is the only thread that he/she/they has posted under using this current handle.</p>
<p>Exactly which is why posters who just happen to be black like Murasaki, hotpiece,shaddix, me and etc. have responded in disgust, because I for one feel like in posting that I am defending my race by showing that not all black people try to game the system like the OP and are truly hard-working individuals.</p>
<p>I think it's safe to say this was certainly a thread created to get members riled up and "iamblack" is a troll</p>
<p>It's good that you're trying to take advantage of the system,seriously if they're going to be that stupid and use affirmative action to make some of their decisions they deserve to be taken advantage of.I don't wheter your chances are that good at in ivy becauase your sat's are just little under their range and we don't know what courses and Ec's you took and have done.You need to be specefic.</p>
<p>Stop Bashing the guy :) I think he gets your point. This is why AA is wrong and I agree--socioeconomics not race, although GENERALLY there can be trends made that economically white > black, but this is not always the case. I don't like that he's milking the system, but if I was in his shoes damn right I would.
And people dislike you because you'll get in all of those schools, so they (myself included if you applied to Wake Forest and I didn't get in as a result) are jealous.</p>
<p>I actually went back and read all the posts,are you guys INSANE.You're saying that he's garaunteed to get into one of the Ivies just because he's black.That's not going to happen.</p>
<p>Doogie311- "Most 100% black people dont suffer from discrimination."</p>
<p>Are you white?</p>
<p>no im green...please if you think discrimination is targeting a high % of minorities then you need to wake up. People today are too afraid to discriminate...even if thats not what they are doing. If i was a boss, you better damn well guarentee id think twice before firing a URM even if he was doing a poor job...dont wanna deal with lawsuits.</p>
<p>People dont wanna have to deal with Al Sharpton anymore...discrimination isnt as big of a problem as it used to be...and idc what you say it doesnt effect the majority of URM's for the reasons i listed above.</p>
<p>Todays generation is much more accepting then we were 10 yrs ago</p>
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People today are too afraid to discriminate
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this may be true but that doesn't mean discrimination doesn't exist...</p>
<p>it's been said about a bajillion times before, but nothing new can be added to this thread. Seriously. NOTHING.</p>
<p>And theres no way one side is going to convince the other of their correctness (thats assuming there even are sides).</p>
<p>That being said, in using the power vested upon me complements of my impressive post count and even more impressive wit, I declare this thread closed.</p>
<p>nothin to see here people, move along.</p>
<p>never said it doesnt exist</p>
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my mom's dad was african-american.
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so you're not "full" african american? in that case, you should put biracial. </p>
<p>I had a friend who put Native American on her application cause she thought it would boost her chances because the school's percentage of NAs were 0.something. </p>
<p>Later, she was interviewed, and the interviewer had her application, and it was obvious she wasn't NA. She was dismissed from the school for lying on the application after signing her name claiming everything was true. </p>
<p>I think AA will always be needed until things become equal for URMs.</p>