<p>"If you are an URM, obviously you are going to support affirmative action. "</p>
<p>Not obvious to me at all. Most URM students do not seem to support AA on CC. And my kids are already in college, so I have no personal agenda. </p>
<p>My current agenda is with the URM students in my community, and hoping they graduate, and hopefully apply to college. Any college. You have nothing to fear from them. </p>
<p>When I look at the big picture, it just drives me a little batty that so many CC kids think URM teenagers are making out like bandits. We are talking about a handful of VERY lucky kids, who get to benefit from affirmative action.</p>
<p>I will note my URM daughter did not get into UCLA, although her SAT and GPA were above their average, and that’s as it should be. She had no adversity to balance her lack of “rigor”; we just valued her tiny-rigor less school over UC admissions. Same for son whose SAT’s where well above average for every UC he applied to, but still did not get in. His GPA was a problem and being URM didn’t seem to change that.Your peers were lucky I guess.</p>