<p>Please consider the following as not a negative personal attack, but rather, to ask you to perhaps reconsider what you said in your post. </p>
<p>With all due respect, you are either being a bit disingenuous, or else you are really not aware of the true state of affairs.</p>
<p>The minorities on this sight themselves routinely give people their ethnic background when asking everyone to “chance” them, because they themselves know they are sought after. </p>
<p>Rightly or wrongly, it is well understood and generally accepted in this country that a reasonably qualified minority will have an advantage over a more qualified white person. The Supeme Court has considered this issue many times.</p>
<p>So you are denying something that simply is fact.</p>
<p>To conclude that because 56% of the people who get into Harvard are white shows that minorities don’t have an advantage is faulty reasoning. I say this because it may be that more than 56% of the top applicants are white. If 10% of the people accepted are asians, and asians only make up 5% of the population, your reasoning would seem to be that this shows that they are being treated more than equally, but if, for example, 1/3 of the best applicants are asians, then they ARE in fact being discriminated against. </p>
<p>I don’t know if you are being politically correct, or if you actually believe what you just wrote, but just ask any asian, and they will tell you that they are routinely rejected even though they are the most qualified applicants, because they are considered over-represented minorities.</p>
<p>Since blacks and hispanics are considered under-represented minorities, colleges go to great lengths to recruit them, and to admit them. </p>
<p>I am not saying that is even wrong, although I do have problems with Barack Obama’s children, or the children of upper middle class minorities, getting preferential admission treatment merely because of their race.</p>
<p>As the guy who wrote this post noted, there are white people in this country who also grew up in disadvantaged environments.</p>
<p>I once read that if it were done simply on merit, that UC Berkeley would be something like 80% asian, 15% jewish, 4% white, and 1% minorities. In our society, rightly or wrongly, such a situation is considered simply not acceptable. So we accept a minority who “only” has a 1400 SAT instead of a white or an asian who has a “1500” SAT, because we conclude that the minority person is “qualified enough”. This is poor solace to the white kid who does not get into his dream school, when he sees minority kids in his high school with lesser statistics in every way get into that same school.</p>