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This is...problematic. No one is owed or deserves a spot at these schools. Its' not your seat to be taken.This thinking has brought us every single attack we've seen on affirmative action and programs attempting to mitigate racial inequality during the college admissions process.
By virtue of you going to a school that even has the curriculum to *allow* you to earn a 4.2 on 4.0 scale means you've already benefited from a system rigged against poor black and brown kids who often attend high schools that do not even offer basic courses like physics.
I know folks are cheering this as some sort of get back against the rich, but it's really not. Potential and who is worthy of attending "elite" schools is not simply summed up by a GPA or SAT score. We are human beings. We have many more attributes than that.
And the system has been unfair to most black and brown kids long before this scandal was uncovered.
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