*should be happy
*You should be happy
@BSMDorBust Ever heard of Sam Pepper? Nice “social experiment”. Also hope your “friend” wasn’t too bothered by you using his account. And it’s nice that you’re able to identify with the URM as a “hispanic”. What class was this that required you to use a college confidential forum to gauge opinions on affirmative action instead of just using google and doing research like everyone else? Or perhaps just looking up old forums?
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@giraffeinatree All I see when I look up Sam Pepper is some YouTube personality charged with sexual harassment. What does that have to do with this? Did someone do this before or are you just insinuating that I’m lying? Anyway, the class itself is psychology (I think?) but it goes by a different name, and our teacher basically just has us do random projects. The point of the assignment wasn’t to do research, and it wasn’t about affirmative action in particular. It was just about trying to argue from an opposite viewpoint. I could’ve used any topic and any online forum. If this hadn’t gotten that big of a response, I would’ve probably posted something on Reddit. Also I don’t trust anyone that uses backwards smiley faces.
@gearmom While I like that people are clearly in support of URMs, I was a little disappointed in the argumentation. Most people just seemed like they wanted to bash me for not agreeing with them or perceived entitlement. I really wanted to see a full discussion that focused on the arguments on both sides rather than a fire fight.
@BSMDorBust So you are Hispanic and you friend is Hispanic, Asian or white?
@gearmom Asian
@BSMDorBust Nah. You’re an Asian from Texas with what you called a “cookie cutter profile” who is trying for med school and who likes to play around on here.
Why couldn’t my mom have married a Hispanic man to help me with admissions?
Ugh. She only cares for herself.
I had the opportunity to and I felt it was truer to my heritage to put down white. Would it have been vastly more helpful if I’d gone with my Grandfather’s race? Yeah, sure. But I got in, and that’s what counts. Sometimes I wonder how it’ve been different if I put down hispanic, though.
I put down asian in my application, both of my parents ran away and immigrated here so theres no way they could possibly trace lineage of my family, i could have put down anything i wanted. I was rejected from both of my dream schools. If i could do it all over again, i would have said i was hispanic or pacific islander, whatever it takes.
@SKTT1Impact Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. You would be fine listing both; my kids do. Even a lot of Hispanics who have never left Latin America are 100% Hispanic and 100% white. This is especially true in the southern tip of SA in countries like Argentina and Chile.
@thegrant Qualified URMs are not wanded into their dream schools. And it is quite possible that you will be called out someday if you are unethical.
@thegrant no offense but someone willing to lie about their race to get in doesn’t deserve admittance. And they get no pity from me.
@TheAtlantic whats your dream college and tell me if u got in, if u didnt, you would understand where im at.
@thegrant The vast majority of kids don’t get into or can afford their dream college.
@thegrant I don’t have a dream college, I’m a junior. I’m also a URM so I don’t know what my equivalent to doing what you’d do is, since lying about my race wouldn’t help me.
@gearmom And I’m guessing you’re just some stay-at-home mom who has nothing better to do than comment on anonymous internet forums and look through other people’s profiles. I don’t care if you don’t believe me. He let me use his profile because he was done with it after getting into college, and the posts before would let the paradigm shift be more effective (at least that was what I was going for).
@BSMDoBust I’m an engineer. You might be someone different because “the other guy” , while a jokester was not quite so rude and didn’t have his world revolve around trite stereotypes like you do. Good thing you had a friend who could give you a profile since it so difficult to create your own.
@BSMDorBust don’t bother responding. I’ve blocked you. While I’m perfectly happy to help kids looking to go to college and encourage other young women into engineering, you have driven the point home that any further conversation with you is a complete waste of my time.