<p>
</p>
<p>Oh, Jesus Christ, read the thread, this has been discussed probably 7 or 8 times at this point.</p>
<p>“Also, it has been estahblished that the diversity rationale is flawed because it merely considers aesthetic diversity.”</p>
<p>Really? who established that?</p>
<p>^nil desperandum, replace “white” with any other color in your statement: “Personally, I’m a decently strong student and I won’t even LOOK AT colleges woth more than 70& _____ population” and you’d be labelled a racist. How would you feel if I said, “I’m a smart guy and wouldn’t dream of going to a school with too many blacks or Hispanics?” No matter what color you are, even if you’re white, statements like yours are pig-headed and small-minded. You’re part of the problem, not the solution.</p>
<p>I agree. I’m an African-American (truly . . . I’m originally from Africa) college student in NYC. Although people mean well, whenever I hear statements like “Personally, I’m a decently strong student and I won’t even LOOK AT colleges woth more than 70& white population” I cringe. I hope the poster is young. I would hate to think that someone of sufficient maturity would make such a patronizing statement.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>What other types of diversity does it provide?</p>
<p>Name ONE circumstance where one MUST be an African American to experience it</p>
<p>One.</p>
<p>There has been much argument about college, AA, etc. Now supposedly if Affirmative action did not ‘help’ the minority groups, but instead helped the majority, ex: whites, asians, etc, what would many of the arguments regarding this issue now. How would many of you react to this?</p>
<p>Could there be some other kind of way that people can get out their frustration with race, AA, and other issues by not creating the same thread over and over again.</p>
<p>What in heaven’s name would be the point of creating a program to help groups that have already been historically advantaged in the admissions process anyway?</p>
<p>^^So I guess your apology was awfully genuine…</p>
<p>Groups don’t go to college - individuals do.</p>
<p>Jaddua, chill out. I read a few pages then decided to put out my opinion; had i seen a similar opinion i would of obviously made some attribution, but this thing is 38 pages long and i don’t have time to read every single one.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Of course such a system existed quite recently (within the lifetime of many participants on CC among the parents’ generation) in state university systems in the south. Where I live, in the upper Midwest, higher education has always been open to all applicants in the state university systems, and the earliest historical examples of minority race graduates from my alma mater graduated before my late grandfather was born. Some of the arguments about current university admission practices are responses to historical patterns of de jure segregation.</p>
<p>Guide to this year’s United States Census form, </p>
<p>[The</a> Questions on the Form - 2010 Census](<a href=“http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/interactive-form.php]The”>http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/interactive-form.php) </p>
<p>which notes that “race” questions have been asked on the decennial census since 1790.</p>
<p>Today, I learned of someone who applied to a certain Ivy League school and recieved an diversity weekend invitation/ likely letter. Thats great, the problem is, he/she is white. He/she claimed African American on her application because his/her Grandfather was from Africa, more specifically Egypt. </p>
<p>I’m angry on several levels, one of them being the fact that my mother, brother, and sister were born in Kenya, and I didn’t even feel right claiming URM status.</p>
<p>Anyway, I want to do something. Who should I send an e-mail to? Will it be completely anonymous if I make a new e-mail address?</p>
<p>And also, just out of curiosity, would being from Egypt make you African or Middle-eastern? I know its in Africa, but Egypt can be considered middle-east…</p>
<p>Did they also claim white? They can claim both you know.</p>
<p>If you are sure of all of your facts and it really bugs you that much, go on ahead and report the person. I hear stories of this sort a lot but, I’ve not been able to nail down the details to the point of even thinking of reporting the person without the risk of looking like an idiot.</p>
<p>Yes, people lie on apps. That isn’t the only app that has untruths in it or exaggeration or misrepresentations. The app process is flawed as is all processes we endure.</p>
<p>The suburban, male, middle-class, white majority is the ultimate debbie-downer for college admissions, especially at Ivy Leagues.
How can one break out of this stereotypical shell for the admissions committee?</p>
<p>Ex. Personally, I’m a Buddhist, utilitarian, and academically dissatisfied student at a large rural public school. Althought this is somewhat different, I still fear this liberal, “nerd” mindset might just be further ingraining my ORM status…</p>
<p>Go on a Jihad or Hajj</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>To reiterate a point that has doubtlessly been mentioned multiple times in this thread, it is extremely disconcerting to me how a minority group (Asians) is discriminated against. That is just blatant racism.</p>
<p>It also bothers me how this is all the work of the majority group. They need to get over themselves and just treat everybody equally.</p>
<p>That’s nothing! I once knew a guy who got rejected; he kidnapped the admissions director’s daughter and held her at gunpoint until the director changed his status to “admitted”. They call that a holistic approach, as opposed to the by-the-numbers GPA & SAT worship most of us subjugate ourselves to.</p>