Top 10 percent rule is unfair

harryssecret
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:00:33 +0000

Of course it’s pervasive. It’s pervading you, for a start. You only have to look at Hillary’s increasingly overt play on it, from the (fairly) subtle “who do you want answering the phone at 3am” stuff to the desperate later stuff on “good hard working white Americans”. I see that this is the wrong place for this discussion, though.

I was accepted at Oxford, without an affirmative action rule or anything similar, but was always convinced I was accepted because i was from a poor comprehensive school in the industrial north, and the college that accepted me was 87% Eton, Harrow, etc. It doesn’t help your self esteem to think you got in somewhere under special circumstances.