tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post7677761711740902481..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: Ditch Admissions For A LotteryDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-82042921363633835462018-10-06T13:00:55.147-07:002018-10-06T13:00:55.147-07:00Upper-middle-class Hispanic and black kids have kn...Upper-middle-class Hispanic and black kids have known, at least since the 80s, that they do not have to take the same number of honors/AP classes, have as high a GPA or score as well on the SAT/ACT tests as white, let alone Asian, kids and they will still be accepted into elite colleges that reject their better-scoring classmates - a perverse incentive if there ever was one. Several friends of my kids admitted as much, and I knew a number of incredibly high-scoring URMs who were initially shunned by their white and Asian college freshmen classmates; who erroneously assumed they were less qualified, due to AA. Once they were past that issue, they were shunned and ridiculed by their fellow racemates, who had been admitted with lesser records, due to AA (not that they wanted to hang out with them, but being harassed is never fun). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com