<p>The person you mentioned still has good extracurricular activities.</p>
<p>Still, do you think it is fair?</p>
<p>Asians discriminated agains just as much as hispanics and blacks?? I dont think so...</p>
<p>It makes me remeber the time when I was do my research about "Chinese Exclusion Act".</p>
<p>1250 on the new or old sat???????</p>
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Affirmative action is no longer in use in public schools in CA. It was ruled unconstitutional by the state supreme court in the case University of California v Bakke in the early '90s, I believe. Look it up, this person did not get in because of their race. The scholarship may be a different story.
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<p>Nah, admissions officers ENCOURAGE people to put their race--if underrepresented--in essays. Seriously too. Even though it's technically "illegal" you can still talk about it in the personal statement and maybe use it to boost yourself that way. It even works this way for graduate school.</p>
<p>I don't agree with Affirmative Action whatsoever, in terms of race. Although economic AA might be a different story. </p>
<p>Also some of my friends are athletes, and they get 1000 on their SAT. It's absolute garbage. Oh well, at least they bring money into the university.</p>
<p>oh crap is it really illegal to state your background in the personal statement? you sure about that? well either way I did.</p>
<p>Nah, I said it was "illegal" for Berkeley to use AA, but they still have it by encouraging you to put your background down in the personal statement. It's a new method of AA through the personal statement.</p>
<p>It's not illegal to write it down though. The wording was odd.</p>
<p>I don't think recruiting for athletics is any worse than AA. The scores of the athletes might be slightly lower than the AA applicants, but many non-athlete students and alumni want the team to do well. An AA applicant doesn't necessarily bring anything extra besides perhaps an extra 1% black/hispanic for the school's freshman class stats. If the numbers aren't up to par, then the student must bring something extra to the university like an athlete would. The rich kids with the low stats are more offensive, but that's a part of life. Complain all you want, but colleges will always admit less qualified students from powerful families; Hopefully it results in a donation that can benefit all students</p>
<p>Recruiting for athletics does give the university money, depending on how well the team does. </p>
<p>So I guess there is a benefit. It's just 1000 is incredibly low.</p>