<p>^ I don’t doubt your achievements or abilities at all. Like I told Affe, He is very talented and a unique individual that definitely deserved Stanford. </p>
<p>What I find fault with AA ( Once again a thread completely unrelated becomes a mosh for AA debate) is the statement that President Gerhard Casper stated in 1995 “Affirmative action is based on the judgment that a policy of true equal opportunity needs to create opportunities for members of historically underrepresented groups to be drawn into various walks of life from which they might otherwise be shut out. Barriers continue to exist in society, and therefore affirmative action asks us to cast our net more widely to broaden the competition and to engage in more active efforts for locating and recruiting applicants.” </p>
<p>If this statement was to hold true than asians would also be considered as URMs but they are not.</p>