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US high school senior here. Made a throwaway for this. Seeing this makes my blood boil. Not only is it essentially an open secret that the admissions process a
by highschoolx 8y ago
US high school senior here. Made a throwaway for this.
Seeing this makes my blood boil. Not only is it essentially an open secret that the admissions process actively discriminates against Asians and other high-achieving ethnic groups--and gives a massive leg up to legacies, children of donors, etc.--these people thought they were good enough, by virtue of their wealth, to bribe and cheat their way into these top universities (and some of them, honestly, shouldn't even need cheating to get into!)
I've worked my tail off for the past four years (if not more) to weasel my way past the racially biased admissions office, and now I see this--brazen corruption from the elite whose egos ride on their trust-fund children's college acceptances.
After my personal experience and now this, I've come to a conclusion: the college admissions process in the US is fundamentally broken. This case isn't just an aberration--it's a pattern.
I shudder to imagine just what my children will have to go through.
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- anigbrowl 8y agoWe live in quite a corrupt society, so here is the part where I tempt you to undertake a nihilistic leap into radical politics: http://www.capitalaspower.com/ http://www.capitalaspower.com/ I shudder to imagine just what my children will have to go through. Things have been known to improve as well to decline. Don't let your anger make you pessimistic, experience will supply you with plenty of occasions for that later.
- jtfairbank 8y agoHow is that Capital As Power site radical at all when it merely purports to explore the dominant mode of capitalism / politics in the USA today? Now if you linked to something like https://sub.media/ https://sub.media/ or https://itsgoingdown.org/ https://itsgoingdown.org/ I'd understand...
- anigbrowl 8y agoI like to invite people to climb into the pool as opposed to just tossing them in at the deep end :)
- gurumeditations 8y agoCollege and life in general is not meritocratic. If anyone has any right to complain about colleges being racially biased and the fact that life is not meritocratic, it’s the people who affirmative action was invented to help, not the whites and Asians who are slightly disadvantaged by it now.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoI worked hard for 8 years of my life for a nil result in terms of college too and unlike you I definitely didn't get into a top university - what exactly does that make me?
- Steko 8y agoWait what are you talking about, 'legacies and children of donors'? I've been watching Fox News faithfully for decades and they've assured me it was only the handful of black and hispanic students who didn't "deserve" their places in college.
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