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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by athenaRising on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:03PM (#36529177)
If MIT rejected applicants with better profiles because of the URM checkbox, in some sense they didn't deserve to get in.

I'm technically 1/4 Hispanic, but not at all Hispanic in any real sense. I forgot to check the box when applying to top schools. My odds would've had a large boost just for claiming an identity that's had no relevance to any area of my life. I'd call that "undeserved."

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by surement on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:43AM (#36537035)
> if MIT rejected applicants with better profiles because of the URM checkbox, in some sense they didn't deserve to get in

"better" is subjective and imo anyone who goes on to succeed at the school is as good as the next person; there are lots of other equally arbitrary decisions that go into college admissions

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