<p>I agree with you Wildflower. </p>
<p>I graduated from a public high school last May. Several of my classmates that are URM's are going to very good schools. (for example -- Case Western and University of Chicago). In some cases, these students received full rides to their respective college. It is likely that this is in part due to race. I think this is great, provided the URM student is not affluent. Many of the top graduates having URM status are affluent. Why should they get a large scholarship, when a non-URM student with equal ability gets nothing even if they have faced many more finacial and social obstacles? </p>
<p>A student w/ URM status who lives in a household with an income of 100k+ almost always has it much better off than the poor white student with parents working at minimum wage. Admittedly, these poor white students are going to get a hefty finacial aid package. Another case and point, more prevalent due to availability of finacial aid packages, the rich URM student may get a full ride while a white student who has had mildly less opportunities in life and has achieved more than the URM status student gets zero.</p>
<p>Let's face it -- today, money is everything. Finacial well being is much better indicator of academic success than race.</p>
<p>If we really want to make it a better world, maybe we should stop worrying about AA, and say death to the idea of rich people (regardless of race) taking up all the resources, moving into the suburbs, and sending their kids to fancy little prep schools.</p>