Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by mcphage on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:48PM
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> the ~99% of people who don't have that privilege
What percentage of accepted students have that privilege? It's pretty high.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by scarmig on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:12PM
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That's irrelevant, though, when you're talking about the vast majority of people who apply who don't get accepted because of those factors. Telling someone "you're privileged because a child of a Kennedy gets a leg up in going to Harvard and shares your skin color, even though you don't get that same leg up" is ridiculous, to say nothing of Asians who are discriminated against despite having relatively few legacies.
As far as legacy admissions go, they're noxious, but you're not accounting for the ~99% of people who don't have that privilege.