<p>@ohboi,
yea i know not all of the kids who do ec’s are bs’ers and tools, but the ones who have an officer loaded resume of StuCo pres, nhs pres., did research at princeton, waksman pres., are a super cocky super tools (based on a real kid btw). in fact he’s such a huge tool i commonly refer to him as “home depot”. some kids really care about what they do like anyone in MUN or the new leaders of FBLA and others are bs like NHS and boystate. now MUN and FBLA elect their leaders while NHS and boystate are chosen by a “faculty committee” which ec’s, in your opinion, would be more susceptible to infiltration by butt kissing? that’s what i thought.the sad part is that these kids get credit for being part of those of organizations and because they vary from school to school it’s impossible for colleges to know who’s legit and who’s bs.</p>
<p>@ bellanaija,
i think around 10% is an adequate percentage of black people on college campuses. it’s an accurate representation of the overall american population. it would be ridiculous if they let every black who applied in because then it wouldn’t be fair to everyone else. blacks, asians, indians, etc… make up a certain portion of the overall population, and once the representation on college campuses of each significantly varies from the national percentiles then you have a problem. for example the uc schools do not practice AA, so they have something like 40% asians in their student body. i think usc has 42% asians and like 5% blacks or something like that. i think i ended up rambling and not being very clear, but bottom line; AA shouldn’t mean everyone gets in, just the portion of the population they represent, and ec’s are bs.</p>