Tufts and Affirmative Action

iwant2go2college
Tue, 30 May 2006 09:20:11 +0000

ariesathena- The reason why I mentioned that I was a hispanic female was because I know that it would give me an advantage in GETTING ACCEPTED and as McDonalds said, why not mention it if it is going to help.
Obviously there is no AA after one gets in college/universities. Being hispanic (not in all cases, but in most) implies other things: living in under privilaged areas and the such. I have to share a two bed-room apartment with two of my sisters, I have to work to help support myself, and I have to put up with cp every single day of my darn life.(blasting music, drunk people, people smoking illegal things, fights, cops every two seconds) I know pretty darn well that if I live in the suburbs with a room to my darn self and my sole responsibily was to make my parents proud and get good grades and do some ECs, I know for a fact that my GPA would be a lot higher.
“Rude awakening is in store for you, because your gender isn’t going to make it the cake walk you expected.” No st. The point of AA is to give qualified underprivleged students the chance to compete with rich-tutored-surburbians-snobs, to me it’s not fair that some people get tutored and other not.
Once I actually get into the college, I know that it’s going to be completely different, because I know that at last I’m going to have the tranquility to HW and study. So I actually expect better grades in college.
“There’s a reason why women engineers are highly respected in the working world.” And by the way, that sentence completely contradicts the whole point you were trying to make.

And with that said, I feel that it’s so unfair when rich blacks and hispanics get in with low stats.

McDonalds-was the thread posted in the Princeton page?