> Meanwhile some white or asian person gets bumped off, and instead of their kids growing up in that area, they grow up in a worse school district.

Because if someone can't go to MIT, they're doomed to a life of abject poverty? Really?

Depends on what they lost on.

A premed, biology grad just lost out on a 500k/yr job by not getting into medical school.

OPs dad got into medical school with this discrimination, so its not a leap to imagine OP would have grown up in a lower middle class area if not for discrimination.

> A premed, biology grad just lost out on a 500k/yr job by not getting into medical school.

Into that medical school. There are others.

If that were always true, AA wouldn't be needed. OPs data could have just gotten into a different school where they don't discriminate.

pedantic

When his dad was coming through it was probably necessary. His dad capitalized on it and made seemingly good use of it by becoming a doctor.