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| Transcendentia 08/02/17 2:43:39 AM #85: | legendary_zell posted... People can overcome all of this, but it's rare and relatively difficult because things are NOT equal and it is NOT a meritocracy out there. I personally was lucky enough to switch to a more "competitive high school, and get good test scores, but I could have done significantly better if my parents had more money. There would be no change in my actual intelligence, but I would appear to have more "merit". But because of their income, no reliable car, crappy middle school and high school, no prep classes, no extracurricular that required money, etc. AA based on race and class accounts for this. I see your anecdote and raise mine - I went to a crappy Chicago Public School on the south side of Chicago. Only white kid there. My parents never had a lot of money while I was growing up because they immigrated to America. No reliable car, crappy middle school, no prep classes, no extracurriculars. I turned out okay. Finished college, happily employed. Took a lot of hard work though. And discipline. Rather than a defeatist victim attitude. legendary_zell posted... Blindly taking the so called "best applicant" ignores all of this and the factors that contribute to these inequalities. It perpetuates those inequalities and justifies them further and further with each acceptance and rejection letter. Haha what? ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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