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<li>comparison between Bush and Louis XIV may be over the top; but I take it you were given a chance to explain how they are different? </li>
<li>I think you haven't really looked at Jena6 in details.</li>
<li>I have mixed feeling about AA. UCs have banned it. But don't assume that it's whites getting displaced. At UCs, the admit rate for whites stayed about the same after the ban while Asian students increased significantly. So apparently, it's the Asians that got displaced by URMs before the ban. I can't say UCs are representative however.</li>
<li>We haven't reached racial equality. You are just not aware of "white priviledge" you have been taking for granted. Do you watch TV? How many minorities are the leads or even secondary leads in prime-time shows? Sometime, if they are nice, they let the minorities to be the bit parts or extras! Suppose you were to come to Los Angeles to audition, would you be thinking how you already have the edge over minorities? Do you think the disappearance of Natalie Holloway would receive as much publicity if she were black?</li>
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<p>I may end up being completely wrong and thus I would have been fully “played” as xiggi would describe it, but I think geraldw is real and some Woodberry connections indicate to me that his connection to Harvard and Vanderbilt and Augusta National is plausible. (geraldw-tell me if your family was/is big in SE retail). Sorry if you felt insulted by my prior comments on WFS-none intended. But college admissions today is a different game from even five years ago and I would ask you to keep my suggestions in mind as you do your search and make your decision. </p>
<p>Real or not, this thread is yet another CC example of the uninformed stereotyping that sometimes get attached to excellent colleges located in the South. W&L and Vanderbilt (not to mention others like Duke, Wake Forest, Davidson, Emory, Tulane, Rice) are such superb schools and excellent students everywhere, all over the country, should be considering them if they are in the market for a top-level undergraduate college.</p>
<p>this is hilarious, but i think he must be real. I just got rejected (Surprisingly) from VAnderbilt. I guess I should have had my dad join augusta, then I would have been a shoe-in</p>
<p>Nah, he's a fake. A person with those attitudes wouldn't be asking advice here, for one thing. And I still say that only somebody pretending to be a snooty kid would use the term "clerking law." A real snooty kid would refer to law school, or he might possibly refer to "reading law."</p>
<p>I agree, this guy is a fraud. I doubt few, if any, WFS kids get on CC because they don't need to: they graduate on to a few, very hand-selected schools and don't worry about the hyper competitive admissions at HYPS etc. for which CC is all about. The cream at WFS will go to Princeton or Williams or take the Morehead/Jefferson to Chapel Hill/UVA. Most others will go on to UVA, UNC, Vanderbilt, UGA, Ole Miss or Alabama. Finally, a connected (and even non-hooked) Old-South GOB would never need to ask about the vast differences between harvard and Vandy/W&L; the chasm between the former and the latter two could not be greater. Everyone on this posting got punked!</p>
<p>nd seeking a representative image of society is what is demanded(the FREE MARKET) of colleges. Colleges with higher % minorities recieve more applications. These 'advantages' in college admissions are mostly in order to meet the demands of applicants.</p>
<p>I would argue the logic of this. I think these schools receive more applications because of their successful branding rather than AA. AA is a factor independent on their choice. Do you have any evidence showing students apply in great numbers to a school practicing AA?</p>