<p>I think everyone that is a minority should put it down. It’s just a business decision–use every advantage you have available to you. I guarantee the rest of the world will be doing the same thing, if not in college admissions then somewhere else farther down the line. It’s just life.</p>
<p>I’m black and I got into every school I applied to, and I definitely got a lot of BS from kids at my high school about getting in off of affirmative action (which was false, i had a 3.9 unweighted GPA at a great/super small college prep high school, went to summer engineering programs since i was in 7th grade finishing off with MITES, and was a 1st team all state basketball player… among other things) but you know at the end of the day I was going to whatever school I wanted to while they had to settle for their safeties. They will all do just fine in life I’m sure, college admissions is just a big game that I did better than them. </p>
<p>Even if you could prove that an “AA candidate” took a spot at a top school from someone else (which you can’t) no one should feel bad about that because its not like you condemned the person to being homeless forever or anything. they just may not get to go to harvard.</p>