Perfect SAT score students (1600 or 2400) - Where do they study now?

esoteric_xx
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:11:53 +0000

I really don’t mean to be rude, but I think its funny when people complain about affirmative action. I’m an Asian myself, so this isn’t coming from a biased perspective, but I can see why affirmative action is there. You feel pretty angry about AA? Well, I would feel pretty angry if I was stuck in the cycle of poverty. There is a reason the policy is instituted - if you do a bit of research, you will find that the groups given precedence are those that are significantly poorer (as a whole) than other groups.

In any case - it isn’t like those minorities are robbing other racial groups of their seats - despite affirmative action, they still make up a very small percentage of students. Qualified applicants of all races still get in. Many qualified applicants will get rejected - but that would be true regardless of affirmative action; there are simply too many applicants.

Anyway, I really didn’t mean to take the thread in another direction, I just wanted to respond to some of the posts.