<p>That post came from the bottom of my heart, so yea, I was serious. It’s surpising that when everything is anonymous, people will really dish out the dirt. This is my take on AA and how it benefitted me. The way some nonURMs and URMs see aa is vastly different. Where as a supporter of urm might argue that they are lending a helping hand, most of the urm’s I know see it as a way to capitalize on a guilty peoples conscience. Get me into harvard business school, and I will pose for as many brochures with other AA cases you want :). Oh and the business world wants diversity, so I think AA will serve me justice when I interview for Goldman sachs in a few years.</p>
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<p>Discussing AA on collegeconfidential is like discussing slavery during the civil war era.</p>
<p>Just a question for people on here, no offense or implications intended.
Do you believe it should be the same chance of admittance for someone who is white and someone who is of another ethnicity with the exact same background (grades, EC, etc)? Should special privileges be given to one race, whether caucasion, african american, asian, etc.?</p>
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<p>I believe everyone should be treated equally. I believe that all people that come from “tougher” backgrounds deserve a little slack when applying to colleges. </p>
<p>As mentioned, the only reason that affirmative action is used is to create diversity. I don’t believe adcoms really CARE about the backgrounds of indiviuals.</p>
<p>Obama is half black but he got full Affirmative Action. Something wrong there.</p>
<p>I don’t see very many bigtime college basketball coaches losing sleep over their teams not being diverse.</p>
<p>Obama has repeatedly said he never put his race on his application. Chances are, he didn’t benefit.</p>
<p>He’s repeatedly said a LOT of things.</p>
<p>Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in the top 10%. Even if he “got full affirmative action” he’s still doing better than you.</p>
<p>^^WantsBrown, how do you know if Obama is doing better? What if the one you are referring to is Magna Cum Laude in engineering from MIT in the top 10%. I say that’s better!</p>
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<p>I’m a URM incredibly biased against AA, for starters. But to me background does not equal grades and ECs. If oen of those two people was poor, lived in a bad neighborhood, had only one parents, etc., then I think that student should be given preference.</p>
<p>If I’m rational about AA, I can say “oh, it should be on an socio-economic basis,” but since in America we do have two racial/ethnic groups (Hispanic and black people) which, taken as a whole, would benefit for a socio-economic based AA, I can see why colleges would want to stick with this easier system. And actually, I think if we were more specific about which racial and ethnic groups benefited, it would be more okay.</p>
<p>But really, now that I think about the level of specificity of which I speak, and really, a socio-economic basis would be easier. The background of black students would matter, ie are they of recent African descent, Caribbean descent, are they multiracial people who consider themselves black, etc. The ethnic group to which people belong to would matter. For example, if one were Hmong, one would benefit from AA, whereas if one were Han, one wouldn’t. And so on, and so on. As I think about it now, I repeat, that’d be incredibly complicated.</p>
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<p>I think the U.S. President, even Bush, is doing “better” than any twerp on CC.</p>
<p>Exactly my point.</p>
<p>Which was?</p>
<p>I think the president might be a doing a little better.</p>
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<p>Maybe he’s the ghost of Nixon.</p>
<p>Nah, he’s Garfield.</p>
<p>^^can “better” be defined by money and fame? I’d say an engineer from MIT should be more proud than any stupid politician.</p>
<p>Odie was better than Garfield.</p>
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<p>How do you know Odie is better? Maybe Odie was an engineer at MIT in the top 10%?</p>