<p>Granfallooner, I completely understand what you’re saying.
I’m the valedictorian of my school and I got a fairly good SAT score (not the best for Ivys but it was still good nevertheless). When I applied to Cornell (the only Ivy League I applied to), I was sure I would get rejected. I just wanted to try however. I got my rejection on my birthday but I didn’t mind since I had already gotten into NYU and I always loved NYU.
However, two days later I found out that the salutatorian got accepted at Cornell with an SAT grade some 300 points below me. Now this got me extremely upset! I had better ECs, better essay and I have worked my butt out to take the most AP classes I can handle while he only took 1 AP class in high school. True, he does have a pretty good GPA but his classes were easier. And our SAT grades obviously don’t even compare since mine are way better.
When I told my guidance counselor that I didn’t get in Cornell, she could not believe it. I could. I’m not an URM and I’m white. Even though I have experienced so much chaos and pain growing up in my country, I am still white and that does not seem to matter since obviously just by looking at my skin color Adcoms can naturally assume that I’ve had it easy.
That’s particularly why I’m so against AA. Because it doesn’t serve anything. If anything, it stirrs up even more animosity. Nothing is worse than the feeling of working so hard and knowing that you have a way lesser chance than another person just because they were born into that race when in fact the brain has no color.
Just because I’m against AA people feel that I’m a racist while in theory, AA is a racist theory. Performance should not correlate with race. That’s why evaluation should not be based on color, but rather on income.</p>