<p>Hello y’all,</p>
<p>I hope to be transferring into IU within the next coming year. I have researched the percentage of minorities at the college as well as the average G.P.A. I have also researched affirmative action according to the recent supreme court ruling among other things… A simple somewhat offensive question to ask y’all would be… Is it easier for a minority to get into this university if their extra curriculars, G.P.A., and location match up to someone of Anglo decent?</p>
<p>Someone with better stats, yes. Someone with worse stats, no. Your question is not as offensive as your logic, y’all.</p>
<p>@Sosomenza affirmative action was created to stop racism and segregation. Today it is used to diversify college campuses so I don’t see how my logic is wrong? If two people have the same stats but one is a minority then who is more likely to be chosen? </p>
<p>I am not sure that you quite understand what affirmative action is so I will just put this here;“An action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination”</p>
<p>This is the college saying they support and comply affirmative action.
“In its admission policies, Indiana University supports and complies with Affirmative Action regulations.”</p>
<p>I guess I should go ahead and correct your name from sosomenza to sosoMENSA. In case you didn’t know Spanish it means sosodumb. Hah.</p>
<p>Ymacedo: No mi digas guey! I’m Mexican so save the translation lesson. You were smart to restate your question so it does make a little more sense. but again it would depend on the stats. If a minority matches up (your words) to someone with good stats then it could help. Your original post seems to insinuate that all Anglos have good stats, which they don’t. BTW I use the Italian translation of Menza with means so, so. Anyway Ha, back.</p>
<p>@sosomenza Aww. Well, that’s cute. I just restated my question in layman’s terms so you could better understand it. I don’t know exactly where you got the idea that I was insinuating people of Anglo decent automatically have good stats. I never phrased my question that way and I keep reading it over hoping that maybe some hidden meaning will pop out somewhere, but still nothing. BTW I looked up the Italian meaning of Menza and I can’t find anything.</p>
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<p>Ymacedo-These are your words-Retract or accept the burden of them. Saying that they do not mean what they clearly mean is weak. BTW your writing would have to improve a couple of notches to gain laymen status.</p>