Affirmative Action

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I'm 99.9% sure quotas are illegal. It's true that being a URM or coming from a state like Alabama or Missisippi (depending on whatever region it is your applying to) might give you an edge or make you look better but if quotas were set, the percentages wouldn't flunctuate every year (do the same number of students from that high school get into that Uni. every year?) even worse, people would sue. and, nowadays guys are minorities in colleges and universities so if there were quotas the gender ratio will be 50/50 rather than the ~ 60/40 it is at now.

Many colleges check to see your High School profile (i think that's why they have the CEEB codes) they know if the school is competitive/rigorous or not. They even check to see the classes offered so they know if you took challenging ones or not. So if your SATs are high and your GPA or class rank is lower, they'll understand. So i'll assume your roommate got rejected for some other reason. maybe he didn't challenge himself enough w/ the classes he took. He had the opportunity of attending a prep school and they probably expected him to take those. SATs are only a small part of the addmision process (State, huge schools are exceptions) your school transcript mean the most.
Many students from my school get into Brown and some don't even end up going there so i don't think there are any quotas.

I used to want to go to Duke but i kind of prefer a small liberal arts school now so yeah. I don't care about name,
us news rankings and all that as long as i learn as much as i can and my future employers/ med school know about it, i'm fine.
there are so many good colleges so few people know about and i don't see why +25 people from the same school will want to attend one single college. of course Duke can't accept them all. lol


And about people thinking all black people got in because of Affirmative Action, you already said it yourself that most whites feel a sense of superiority so they probably assume all blacks are dumb anyway and even if Affirmative action is eliminated, they will still look for an excuse out of their close-mindedness.

Reverse discrimination =====> was all my prof could say when the topic of AA came up.
I then asked him how do we then tackle the problem if we cannot use quotas due to reverse discrimation?

Its blatent that the western culture is set-up to favour the white male, but at times it can get redundant when people cry racism.
As a black man or woman we know that we are predisposed to work 10 times harder then anyone in order to succeed in this society
It is sad but that is the absolute reality.

Most whites are ignorant when it comes to their privileged position. We (whites that is) are just hardly ever confronted with the reality of deviating from the implicit norm.

It's mainly ignorance, but also fear of losing privilege.

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They certainly have the "right" but it's not their inclination. Why? b/c private schools charge (ridiculously) high tuition & justify this by claiming a "better" education & a "better" educational community. That "better community" is considered to a diverse one in America & the rest of your beloved West.